Course Outline (NB: This outline is subject to change)
Week 1 – Nostalgia and its Discontents
Falling Down – Part 1
Week 2 – Walking the City
Falling Down – Part 2
Week 3 – Library Session 1
The Flaneur and Falling Down
Week 4 – L.A. 92 – Part 1 – A city that never quite came together
L.A. 92 – Part 2 – Freud “On Transience”.
Week 5 – Restorative and Reflective Nostalgia – In Class Essay
Peer Review
Week 6 – Reviewing the Flaneur
Nostalgia – Discontent and Transient
Week 7 – Library Session 2
Finding a Topic – Reading and Evaluating Sources
Week 8 - The Third Man (PPT)
The Third Man – Part 1
Week 9 –The Third Man – Part 2
Synthesis and Literature Review
Week 10 – Research Project Outline
Walking the City
Week 11 – Annotated Bibliography
The Third Man - Documentary
Week 12 – Gap in Knowledge – Work on Research Papers
A (Wo)man without a city – Gender and the Flaneur
Week 13 – Peer Review Research Paper
The Language of the City
Week 14 – Tying it all together – Cities of Slow Thinking
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