Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

Through a combination of classroom- and field-based activities, this module aims to:

• evaluate the emotional dimensions of the relations between people, places and environments in everyday urban contexts
• examine a range of techniques for researching and conveying the emotional geographies of everyday life in urban areas.
• explore a range of everyday urban spaces and the emotions that animate them

Outline Of Syllabus

Teaching and learning will take place through a series of weekly lectures and workshops in February and March, and through a one-week period of fieldwork activity in Vienna and Bratislava in late March/early April

Pre-field lectures and workshops:
1.       Introduction to the module and to emotional geographies
2.       Embodied geographies
3.       Affects and atmospheres
4.       Everyday geographies of the city
5.       Politics of emotions
6. Methodological workshop (no lecture)
7. Assessed presentations/student conference (no lecture)


Vienne and Bratislava fieldtrip schedule:
Day 1: Arrival to Bratislava
Day 2&3: Individual (supervised) fieldwork in Bratislava
Day 4: Transfer to Vienna and individual (supervised) fieldwork
Day 5&6: Individual (supervised) fieldwork in Vienna
Day 7: Departure

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able to:

• demonstrate the relevance of a range of theories explaining the emotional dynamics between people, and places urban environments
     
• demonstrate an understanding of the meaning and value of ‘the everyday’ and of the many emotions, practices and relationships which shape everyday geographies

Intended Skill Outcomes

On completion of this module students should be able to:
• demonstrate emotional reflexivity and responsiveness in interaction with people and environments
• collect and analyse materials from the field;
• plan, conduct and evaluate work in different urban settings
• present understandings of theoretical and fieldwork themes in the written and oral forms.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Students will be preparing for their field projects through engaging with weekly lectures and subsequent collective workshops. This weekly regime will be interrupted in week 7, when students will deliver their assessment 1 in the format of individual oral presentation. In week 6, the workshop will specifically focus on this assessment, and there will be no lecture.

Students will then complete their individual field-based projects during five days either in Vienna and Bratislava.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The first assessment requires students to reflect on theories introduced in the module and how they inform the development of field methodologies employed to explore emotional geographies of urban environments. This assessment will address students’ understanding of issues necessary to develop and conduct field activities. The feedback will be provided shortly after the presentations themselves, so students have time to use this towards their field projects.

General Notes

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