AMERICAN URBAN SPACES AND IDENTITIES
| Title | ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΙΚΑ ΑΣΤΙΚΑ ΠΕΔΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑ / AMERICAN URBAN SPACES AND IDENTITIES |
| Code | Λογ7-498 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600008034 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2021 – 2022 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors |
|
| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600186901
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Class Schedule
| Building | Φιλοσοφική (Νέα) |
| Floor | Όροφος 1 |
| Hall | ΑΜΦΙΘΕΑΤΡΟ 107 (126) |
| Calendar | Mercoledì 16:00 to 18:30 |
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600186901
- At the Website of the School: https://www.enl.auth.gr/course.asp?Id=351
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=3825
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Learning Outcomes
In particular, students will:
-Discuss and closely analyze short stories, novels, poems, films, graphic novels, online platforms, TV series.
-Focus on various writing practices and textualities.
-Be informed about the socio-cultural, political, environmental and artistic trends that relate to the “texts” under examination.
-Undertake various creative, collaborative, and comparative projects.
-Converse with guest speakers.
-Use online tools.
-Develop critical and creative thinking in research.
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Work in an international context
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course focuses on the interdisciplinary study of urban space with particular attention paid to major post-1945 American cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. With urbanism developing in tandem with major socio-cultural and political challenges, students will be invited to approach urban spaces or cityscapes as racial, escapist, prejudiced, commodified, violent, ambivalent, traumatized and mediated spaces whose development is intertwined with the experiences of its residents
Educational Material Types
- Multimedia
- Book
- Journal articles and chapters from edited volumes
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
- Use of ICT in Student Assessment
Description
-Online material made available via the American Studies Resource Portal (www.asrp.gr)as well as youtube (documentaries, interviews).
-As regards communication with the students, this is always carried out via email or via posting various announcements on the School website or via the elearning platform.
-The elearning platform is used for the uploading of all course material as well as for the submission of the student essays.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 150 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Project | |||||
| Exams | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| student presentations | ✓ | ✓ | |||
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
Presentations, reports, creative projects and/or final exam
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative)
- Report (Summative)
- Participating in the response of forum questions throughout the semester, creative projects (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
Auster, Paul. The New York Trilogy. Faber and Faber, 1988.
Barthes, Roland. Image Music Text. Fontana, 1977.
Cisneros, Sandra. The House on Mango Street. A.A. Knopf, 1994.
Denzin, Norman K. Reading Race: Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence. Sage Publications, 2002.
Ellis, Bret Easton. Less Than Zero. 1985. Picador, 2011.
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Graham, Maryemma. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Grey, Timothy. Urban Pastoral: Natural Currents in the New York School. University of Iowa Press, 2010.
Hayles, N. Katherine, and Jessica Pressman. Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Homberger, Eric. New York City: A Cultural and Literary Companion. Signal Books, 2002.
Jarvis, Brian. Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture. Pluto Press,1998.
Lindner, Christoph. Urban Space and Cityscapes: Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture. Routledge, 2006.
Maitino, John R., and David R. Peck. Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays. University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Petry, Ann. The Street. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946.
Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. Verso, 1989.
Last Update
22-11-2021
