Courses Handbook 2010

310209 (v.3) Reading the City 311


Area: Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Tutorial: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus (HB): This unit explores the concept of 'the city' as a dynamic entity and analyses how our understanding and interaction of the city produceds knowledge of space, subjectivity and the Other. The city will be examined as a physical and socio-political structure, with focus upon the rise of the city in modernity and its transformation in post-modernity. Students will gain the ability to think critically, creatively and reflectively.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 091500 Language and Literature (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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