School of Physical and Geographical Sciences  
 
 
GEG-30018 Cultural Geographies of the Everyday  
Co-ordinator: Dr Paul Simpson   Tel:33165  
Teaching Team: Mr David  Emley, Mrs Stephanie  Everill, Mrs Emma  Harvey, Mrs Karen  Babb, Ms Clare  Sillitto,  Simon  Haslett,  Darren  Smith  
Lecture Time: See Timetable...  
Level: 3 Credits: 15 Study Hours: 150  
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Programme/Approved Electives for
None
Available as a Free Standing Elective
No
Barred Combinations
None
Prerequisites
None
Description

This module seeks to provide students with an understanding of the geographies present in a range of everyday cultural practices, artefacts, and representations. Through a combination of lectures and seminar-based discussions students will be introduced to some key debates and ideas prominent in contemporary research in cultural geography and be given an opportunity to assess those debates/ideas in relation to a variety of everyday contexts through group discussion. Such everyday contexts will include: everyday practices of mobility (such as cycling, walking, driving); how individuals perform their identities in public life; the importance of emotions and feelings to the experience of everyday spaces; how various cultural landscapes are represented and experienced; the geographies present in various 'mediascapes' (such as film, television, video games); how certain sub-cultural activities (such as parkour, street performing) can be seen as 'subverting' social-spatial norms; and the role memory and commemoration play in our relationships with different places.
Aims
This module aims to:
- provide students with an understanding of the geographies present in a range of everyday cultural practices, artefacts, and representations
- introduce students to key debates and ideas prominent in contemporary research in cultural geography
- provide an assessment of those debates and ideas in relation to a range of everyday contexts
Intended Learning Outcomes
Apply a range of key cultural geographic concepts and ideas, particularly those related to understandings of practice, representation, and mobility, in reflecting on topics present in contemporary research in cultural geography relevant to the everyday will be achieved by assessments: 1 ,2 ,3
Critically evaluate a range of approaches to the study of the cultural geographies of everyday practices, artefacts, and representations and illustrate this through case study examples will be achieved by assessments: 1, 2, 3
Select and interrogate relevant literature concerning the cultural geographies of the everyday, and communicate this in written form with reference to broader debates within geography and related disciplines will be achieved by assessments: 1, 2, 3
Study hours
12 x 1 hour lectures
10 x 1 hour seminars
35 hours essay preparation
10 hours seminar preparation
15 hours of 'blog' writing
40 hours of independent study
28 hours of exam preparation
Description of Module Assessment
01: Essay weighted 40%
2000 word essay
Students will select one essay topic from a range of question options provided that will relate to a variety of topics covered in the module lectures
02: Reflective Diary weighted 20%
1000 word seminar 'blog'
Students will maintain a 'blog' which will document their thoughts on readings undertaken in preparation for the seminar discussions and the discussions taking places in those seminars
03: 1 Hour Exam weighted 40%
1 hour unseen exam, 1 question from 4
Students will answer one unseen essay question from a list of four
Version: (1.06B) Updated: 03/Mar/2013

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