Urban Social Geography: Contemporary Issues
Key themes in contemporary urban social geography
The course discusses the key themes and trends in contemporary urban social geography. In-class lectures focus on segregation, daily mobility, criminality, suburbanization and other topics, allowing to compare research from Prague with other European cities. The course also offers two field trips (to a housing estate and a suburb of Prague), on which the students’ work is based. The emphasis of the course is on reading and discussion as well as on own fieldwork and its presentation. Participation and co-operation of Czech and Erasmus, as well as urban geographers and students of other disciplines, are encouraged, giving the opportunity for networking and exchange of ideas across countries and fields of study. Completion of previous courses in urban geography is not required.
Summer term 2020/2021: Thursdays 9 a.m., room Z1 in Albertov 6 / online
Web page of the course in Moodle.
The schedule for the 2021/22 academic year summer semester will be published in February 2022.
Course requirements and evaluation criteria
Basic level
- Total score in tests I and II > 50 %
- Attendance of at least 7 lectures (excluding Introduction), including compulsory attendance of discussion seminars
- Timely submission of at least 6 pre-class assignments (submitted via Moodle, annotation of required reading + answers to all questions suggested in Moodle)
Exam
- Same conditions as for basic level plus:
- Activity and discussion of required readings in class
- Research project (in groups)
- discussion of research questions and brief literature overview
- discussion of methodology
- submission of draft paper
- presentation and discussion of research project at the "USG II conference"
- submission of research paper
Find more information in Moodle.
From lectures: Test
Exercise: Teamwork
Field trip to housing estates:
Field trip to the suburbs:
