Module Catalogue 2024/25

GEO2128 : Emotional Geographies of the City: Vienna/Bratislava or UK urban field course (Inactive)

GEO2128 : Emotional Geographies of the City: Vienna/Bratislava or UK urban field course (Inactive)

  • Inactive for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Matej Blazek
  • Lecturer: Professor Alison Stenning
  • Owning School: Geography, Politics & Sociology
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value: 20
ECTS Credits: 10.0
European Credit Transfer System
Pre-requisite

Modules you must have done previously to study this module

Code Title
GEO2043Key Methods for Human Geographers
Pre Requisite Comment

If you are a stage 3 student, you must take the pre-requisite stage 2 module.

Co-Requisite

Modules you need to take at the same time

Code Title
GEO2043Key Methods for Human Geographers
Co Requisite Comment

If you are a stage 2 student, you must take the co-requisite stage 2 module.

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)
8. Fieldwork logistics

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

Learning Outcomes

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 Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Structured Guided LearningLecture materials61:006:00Live lectures in weeks 1-5 and 8
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion130:0030:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesWorkshops62:0012:00Weekly in-person workshops following from pre-recorded lecture
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesWorkshops12:002:00Assessed presentations. Students expected to attend the full block where their pres. is scheduled.
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesFieldwork58:0040:005 full days of field activities (not including travel days)
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study1110:00110:00N/A
Total200:00
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 pre-recorded lecture.

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

Reading Lists

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Oral Examination2M30Oral presentation - 10 minute individual presentation
Essay2M702,500 word essay
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.

Timetable

Past Exam Papers

General Notes

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