Place, Society and Culture
Code: 104242 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Planning | FB | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Anna Ortiz Guitart
- Email:
- anna.ortiz@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
To take this course you must have a command of Catalan and/or Spanish equal to or higher than level B2.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Learning Outcomes
- CM01 (Competence) Propose problems and possible solutions based on the analysis of the concept of the city, as a spatial synthesis resulting from the evolution of the demographic, economic, environmental, cultural and political dynamics of contemporary societies.
- CM02 (Competence) Compile knowledge related to specialized topics in human geography for use in conveying information that includes a gender perspective.
- KM03 (Knowledge) Describe the spatial relationships of the physical, economic, social and cultural diversity of territories at different scales,.
Content
The contents of the course are:
1) Introduction to social and cultural geographies.
- Definition, evolution and theoretical approaches
- Space, place and territory: key concepts
- Geographical scales: from the body to the global scale
- Qualitative and quantitative methods in social geography
2) Difference and diversity
- Gender, ethnicity and sexuality
- Social geographies of age: childhood and the elderly
- Geographies of (dis)capabilities
3) Geographies of well-being
- Health, risk and resilience
- Care and social well-being
- Emotions and space
4) Geographies of social justice
- Ethics and social geography
- Environmental justice
- A social geography of human rights
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Classroom practices | 10.5 | 0.42 | KM03, KM03 |
| Field trip | 6 | 0.24 | CM02, KM03, CM02 |
| Theory sessions | 32 | 1.28 | CM02, CM02 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Practices and group work | 20 | 0.8 | CM02, KM03, CM02 |
| Tutorship | 5 | 0.2 | CM01, CM02, KM03, CM01 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Library course | 3 | 0.12 | |
| Personal study | 42 | 1.68 | CM02, CM02 |
| Preparation of practices | 30 | 1.2 | CM01, CM01 |
There will be lectures, classroom practice and field trip.
The training activities include:
- Autonomous activities: individual reading and comprehension of texts (according to the compulsory readings); and group work.
- Directed activities: presentation by the teacher and active participation by the students in the theoretical sessions and in the activities of understanding the concepts developed in the classroom.
- Supervised activities: small group presentations (3/4 people) of the readings, group work and field trips.
Field trips will be conducted in accordance with the official Field Trip Protocol established by the Faculty. Students will be provided with specific safety documentation related to off-campus activities organized by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). It is the responsibility of each student to review and acknowledge this documentation prior to participating in any field activity.
In order to learn how to cite correctly, it is mandatory to take the APA information sources and citations review course organized by the UAB library service.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essay and oral presentation | 20% | 0 | 0 | CM02, KM03 |
| Individual activities carried out in the classroom | 20% | 0 | 0 | CM01 |
| Individual examination | 20% | 1.5 | 0.06 | CM01, CM02 |
| Individual exercise on readings | 20% | 0 | 0 | CM02 |
| Work in groups | 20% | 0 | 0 | KM03 |
The course is assessed on a continuous basis.
The assessment includes 5 activities:
- Individual activities carried out in the classroom (20%) (exercises carried out in the classroom without prior notice, preparation of summaries or questions at the end of a session)
- Group work (field trip 1) (20%)
- Individual essay and oral presentation (field trip 2) (20%)
- Individual exercise on readings (20%)
- Individual exam (20%)
In order to pass the subject, it is mandatory to have completed the APA information sources and citations review course organized by the UAB library service (present certificate).
In the activities that require the use of bibliographic sources, the application of the knowledge acquired in the review course on information sources and APA citations organized by the UAB library service will be assessed.
It is important to bear in mind the basic academic rules on how to cite and avoid plagiarism (https://www.uab.cat/doc/GuiaCitesiPlagiEstudiants).
EXAM SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSION
The dates for exams and assignment submissions will be communicated to students well in advance and cannot be modified on an individual basis (except in exceptional cases and always with proper justification).
Erasmus students requesting to take an exam earlier must present the instructor with a written document from their home university justifying their request.
The date of the resit exam will be set by the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts and cannot be changed.
SINGLE EVALUATION
The single assessment system is not foreseen in the subject area.
REEVALUATION
There will be recovery of all those activities presented that have not exceeded 5.
The recovery of the theory exam will be in the form of an exam.
The recovery of the rest of the evaluable activities will consist of redoing the evidence.
The recovered activities will be graded between 0 and 5.
Thenon-recoverable evaluative activities are the activities resulting from the field trips and the activities carried out in the classroom.
The evaluation reports in which there have been irregularities are not recoverable.
REVIEWING GRADES
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place
NOT ASSESSED/NOT SUBMITTED
Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items.
PLAGIARISM
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Prohibited use: this course does not foresee the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in any of its phases. Any work that includes generalised AI fragments will be considered a breach of academic honesty and may result in a partial or full penalty of the course grade, or higher penalties in cases of seriousness.
Bibliography
Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica
Social & Cultural Geography
Children’s Geographies
Gender, Place and Culture
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Smith, Susan J.; Pain, Rachel; Marston, Sallie A. & Jones III, John Paul (eds.) (2009). The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies, London: Sage.
*A more detailed bibliography will be provided for each topic.
Software
Word, excel, powerpoint (or free software choices).
Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (PCAM) Field practices | 11 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (PCAM) Field practices | 12 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |
| (TE) Theory | 1 | Catalan | first semester | morning-mixed |