Admission requirements
This course is only available for students in the BA Urban Studies programme.
Description
This course explores the poetics, performances and politics of cultural and linguistic practices in cities all over the world. The emergence of increasingly multicultural cities comes with a multitude of dynamic cultural practices. Students are trained to reflect critically on both the dynamics and historical, social and cultural embeddedness of these urban practices. How is urban space claimed through cultural and linguistic practices and how they produce and reproduce notions of belonging? In this course, students will engage with critical approaches to study youth cultures and urban cultures in relation to globalization, group formation and identity construction. Topics such as hiphop, urban sports, youth language, fashion, art and social media are discussed on local and global scales, with a specific focus on its intersections with gender, race and class. This courses offers an approach that is sensitive to the dynamic, relational character of culture and that reflects the realities of the contemporary city.
This is the Multicultural City Thematic Elective.
Course objectives
General learning outcomes
See tab Additional information for the overview of the programme's general learning outcomes. In the assessment methods below is outlined which general learning outcome will be tested through which method.
Course objectives, pertaining to this course
1) Students develop and learn to apply knowledge of the ways in which linguistic and cultural practices vary across the world in dynamic ways and how urban space is claimed through these practices;
2) Students develop skills to empirically investigate how people produce senses of belonging in the city by practicing various research methods in the city of The Hague;
3) Students acquire intellectual familiarity with different theoretical points of view with regard to youth cultures and urban cultures, globalization, group formation and identity construction and learn to apply this knowledge in their own work.
Timetable
The timetable is available on the Urban Studies website
Mode of instruction
- Work group (compulsory attendance)
This means that students have to attend every session of the course. If a student is unable to attend a workgroup, they should inform the lecturer in advance, providing a valid reason for absence. The teacher will determine if and how the missed session can be compensated by an additional assignment. If they are absent from a workgroup without a valid reason, they can be excluded from the final exam in the course.
Course Load
Total course load for this course is 10 EC (1 EC equals 28 hours), which equals 280 hours, broken down by:
Practical work: 110 hours
Attending work groups: 28 hours
Study of compulsory literature: 100 hours
Completing assignment(s), preparing for classes and exams: 12 hours
Assessment hours (exams): 30 hours
Assessment method
Assessment
Attendance, preparation and participation in workgroups
-measured programme's general learning outcomes: 1, 4-5, 8, 10-11, 13-21, 23-26
-measured course specific objectives: 1-3Written paper
-measured programme's general learning outcomes: 1, 4-6, 8, 11, 13-17, 19-20, 24-26
-measured course specific objectives: 1-3
Weighing
| Partial grade | Weighing |
|---|---|
| Work group grade: Attendance, preparation and participation | 10 |
| Reflection Paper | 40 |
| Final Research Paper (either textual or other format) | 50 |
End grade
To successfully complete the course, please take note that the end grade of the course is established by determining the weighted average of all assessment components.
Resit
Students who have been active participants in class and submitted the final paper on time, but scored an overall insuffient mark, are entitled to a resit. For the resit, the students are given a chance to hand in a new version of the final paper. The deadline for resubmission is to be consulted with the lecturer.
Faculty regulations concerning participation in resits are listed in article 4.1 of the Faculty Course and Examination Regulations.
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organised.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for:
Distribution of the syllabus and other relevant information
Distribution of some of the literature
Submission of assignments
Communication
Reading list
A reading list will be provided in the syllabus, consisting of articles that can be accessed through the Leiden University Library or shared by the lecturers on Blackboard.
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website
Registration Studeren à la carte and Contractonderwijs
Not applicable.
Contact
Remarks
None.