Module ANT2009 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT2009: Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module with enable you to think analytically about ideas of race and place, processes of voluntary and forced migration of people across the globe and their lives in the living city, how ethnicity mediates cultural creativity in cities and how cities become sites of political action and resistance to regimes of governance and power. You will also learn how to think critically about popular racialised, classed and gendered representations of cities, including everyday accounts of urban uprisings and gang cultures. While the city is often depicted as the site of ethnic diversity and migration, we shall consider how the countryside becomes portrayed in some cultural representations as the city’s other and thus the site of cultural homogeneity.
This module will draw mainly upon anthropological and sociological studies of migration, ethnicity, place and urban cultures. We shall also consider important work by scholars in related disciplines such as cultural geography and politics to think about place, race and identity. In so doing this module will familiarise you with the rich body of work and thought by anthropologists, sociologists, cultural geographers and scholars from related disciplines working on questions concerning migration, ethnicity, race, racism, social class, place, politics, power and the city. The module will take a comparative approach drawing upon studies across Britain and the globe.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate familiarity and some critical engagement with anthropological, sociological and related work on ethnicities, migration and the city 2. demonstrate some appreciation of theories and concepts deployed to analyze the ways in which places become sites for the production of identities 3. think critically about popular and everyday representations of urban life |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 4. display - in written and oral form - an understanding of the relationship between anthropological, sociological and related approaches and explanations offered in the social sciences 5. appreciate key issues relevant to the contemporary world, and develop critical, comparative insight. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. demonstrate transferable skills in formulating, researching and addressing focused questions 7. prepare focused and comprehensive written and oral presentations 8. work independently and in collaboration with others |
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly informal class presentations and discussions focused on set questions, task and key readings. | 500 words | 1-2,4,7-8 | Oral |
| Essay plan setting out key themes to be explored in the summative research essay | 1,000 words | 1-3, 5-8 | Oral and written |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 0 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research essay | 100 | 3,000 words | 1-8 | Oral and written |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research essay | Research Essay (3000 words) | 1-8 | August/September reassessment period |
