Environment, Space and Housing
Code: 101248 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 3 | 0 |
| 2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Maria Teresa Tapada Berteli
- Email:
- Teresa.Tapada@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- spanish (spa)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- Yes
Prerequisites
There are no official prerequisites compulsory to attend this subject
Objectives and Contextualisation
The course aims the student to introduce to the theoretical contributions and applied knowledge of the anthropology of the built environment and the urban anthropology. After the acquirement of these basic knowledge, the course introduces to the critical approach of urban policies from the anthropological perspective.
Competences
- Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Apprehending cultural diversity through ethnography and critically assessing ethnographic materials as knowledge of local contexts and as a proposal of theoretical models.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Producing cultural diversity materials that could have a critical impact on the common sense conceptions.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Students must demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the history of anthropological theory and the genesis of its basic concepts.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing a contemporary fact from an anthropological perspective.
- Analysing data critically from anthropological investigations and reports.
- Engaging in debates about historical and contemporary facts and respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Enumerating the theories about human species in their relation to society and culture production.
- Explaining the work's results narratively in accordance with the critical standards of discipline and bearing in mind the different target audiences.
- Identifying main and supporting ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Identifying the contemporary interdisciplinary tendencies shared by the Anthropology and social disciplines related to the corresponding field.
- Identifying the recent disciplinary developments and the correlation between the anthropological theory and the social disciplines related in their historical development and the current interdisciplinary tendencies.
- Identifying the sociocultural variability in specific ethnographic contexts.
- Identifying the various relationship processes between human populations and their environment.
- Producing materials related to the human population-environment relationships that may have a critical impact on the political and common sense conceptions in their respective fields.
Content
Contents
1. Introduction and objectives of the course.
2. Perspectives from urban and space anthropology: the spatialization of culture.
a. Theoretical principles and basic concepts.
b. From urban anthropology to space anthropology.
c. From tangible to intangible: the physical space, the experience of the use of space and imagined space.
3.Forms of space appropriation and vernacular construction in the age of globalization.
a. Traditional and vernacular constructions.
b. Cultural diversity in the use of space.
c.The process of globalization and its impact on the perception of the territory: deterritorialization and identity.
4. Processes of adaptation and socio-symbolic meanings of physical space: sense of belonging
4. Processes of adaptation and socio-symbolic meanings of physical space: sense of belonging, identity and social and community empowerment.
a. The physical space as a projection of the social structure at various scales: housing, block, inter-block, street, neighbourhood, city.
b. The physical space as a projection of norms, habits and sociocultural practices. c. The urban re-accommodation as a reterritorialization experience.
5. The problem of housing, identity processes and social movements.
6. The applicability of anthropological knowledge from an interdisciplinary perspective.
7. Conclusions. Methodology
Methodology
Methodology
Training activities: theoretical classes and guided practices, directed readings and presentation of the work.
Teaching methodology: master classes, viewing of documentaries, debates, individual reading and group discussion.
Training activities
Type: Directed
Theoretical classes and practices directed by the teacher
Discussions in the classroom
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Discussions in the classroom | 15 | 0.6 | 2, 5, 10, 9, 6, 3, 11 |
| Theoretical Classes and practices directed by the teacher | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 5, 10, 9, 6, 3, 11 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Individual tutorials | 5 | 0.2 | 2, 5, 10, 9, 6, 3, 11 |
| Tutorials-supervised work | 25 | 1 | 2, 5, 10, 9, 6, 3, 11 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Personal Study | 26 | 1.04 | 2, 5, 10, 9, 6, 3, 11 |
| Reading | 25 | 1 | 2, 5, 10, 9, 6, 3, 11 |
| Search for information (libraries or other sources). Personal study. Reading. | 10 | 0.4 | 2, 5, 10, 9, 6, 3, 11 |
Assessment
Evaluation
30% Written exam with the incorporation of the subjects taught in class, mandatory and specific theoretical readings on the topic of work, videos and lectures.
40% Individual work (theoretical framework with the introduction of corrections + incorporation of the case study). The subject will be of free choice with supervision of the teacher (urban social movement, case of use of space, etc.).
10% Presentation of the course work at the Final Seminar (individual)
20% Participation in the discussions in class, exercises in the classroom of compulsory texts and participation in the presentations of the final work of the classmates.
The student must obtain a minimum mark of 4.5 in the exa. If you take less than this note, the subject will be suspended, and the exam must be reevaluated to the reassessment period. If, despite having passed the exam, the average of the final grade is less than 5, the subject will be suspended. Attendance and participation are not recoverable during the reassessment period. Obviously, the examination is recoverable during the reassessment period.
At the time of carrying out each evaluation activity, the teacher will inform the students (Moodle) of the procedure and date of review of the qualifications.
Misconduct in assessment activities
Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the students involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB's virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to acces these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual Work | 40% | 0 | 0 | 2, 1, 10, 9, 11 |
| Participation | 20% | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 10, 9 |
| Presentation of the course work at the Final Seminar (individual) | 10% | 6 | 0.24 | 5, 6, 3 |
| Written exam | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 4, 8, 7 |
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