Admission requirements
Admission to the MA Asian Studies (60 EC or research).
Description
This course explores the relationship between digitality and urbanism across Asia. Bringing together spatiality – ideas such as territory, place, scale, and mobility – alongside digitality – understood through materials, aesthetics, discourses, and logics – the course examines contemporary urbanism in Asia and Asia’s urban futures. From migration to labour, gender to governance, and the spectacular to the mundane, we will explore how cities in Asia are developing in the digital era, the problems Asian cities are facing, and the ways in which residents, governments, and corporations are reproducing cities in various ways.
The course will introduce conceptual frameworks through which urbanism, spatiality, and digitality can be understood, but understands cities as socially produced assemblages and networks made up of a variety of human and non-human actors. While the course will examine top-down perspectives towards the city, it is also very much grounded in how the city is reproduced and contested by everyday people. To explore the intersection of urbanism and digitality the course includes case studies from across Asia and also explores the relationship Asian cities have to contexts elsewhere in the world.
Course objectives
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
Understand the factors that cause cities in Asia to develop along a variety of trajectories;
Highlight the roles that digital technologies and and do play in urbanism;
Highlight key theories and concepts in urban studies and human geography;
Conduct independent and group research projects while further developing written and oral communication skills for both presentations and essays.
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Assessment method
Academic integrity
Students should familiarize themselves with the notion of academic integrity and the ways in which this plays out in their own work. A good place to start is this page. Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Students may not substantially reuse texts they have previously submitted in this or other courses. Minor overlap with previous work is allowed as long as it is duly noted in citation. For information on plagiarism (in the context of academic writing at large), see clips 4-5-6 in this series of video clips.
Students must submit their assignment(s) to Brightspace through Turnitin, so they can be checked for plagiarism. Submission via email is not accepted.
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Assessment and weighing
| Partial assessment | Weighing |
|---|---|
| Group project and presentations | 40% |
| Research paper proposal 1,000 words | 10% |
| Individual research paper 4,000 words | 50% |
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average. In order to pass the course, the weighted average of the partial grades must be 5.50 (=6) or higher.
The course is an integrated whole. All assessment parts must be completed in the same academic year. No partial marks can be carried over into following years.
Resit
A resit is possible for the term paper (50%) only, and only if (1) the original submission constituted a serious attempt; and (2) the student failed both the paper and the full course (i.e. had a 5.49 or lower).
Inspection and feedback
Feedback will be supplied primarily through Brightspace. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the assessment results, a review will be organized.
Reading list
A reader will be made available before the start of the course through Brightspace.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Registration Exchange
For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office Herta Mohr