Course Description  

This course unit introduces students to the main approaches to investigating the urban experience in the social space of the modern city.

 Also, the course unit will ground students in an understanding of cities as critical nodes within a world that is increasingly interconnected socially, culturally, politically and economically.

It will investigate the causes and effects of this interconnectedness as well as the methods utilized to measure it. It will explore how the global context shapes urban issues, examining the global urban networks across which capital, labor and ideas flow.

Intended Learning Outcomes

1.       Identify the sociological and anthropological approaches to studying cities and urban lives

2.       Ability to analyse/evaluate and assess the key theoretical debates in the fields of urban anthropology and anthropology of the city / to have an awareness of the debates and be aware of how specific theoretical trends developed over time. Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of anthropological and sociological theories regarding the cities 

3.       evaluate urban space and the make- up of urban environments

4.       Relate the theory to specific ethnographic contexts in the analysis of the spatial cultural political and social characteristics of the modern cities  

  1. examine global changes and current trends in cities.

  1. 6 identify and assess the effects of technology and the changing labor, housing and land markets in 21st-century cities.
  2. illustrate how urban sociology might be used to anticipate and plan for changes and development in different urban settings.