Session
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Session Focus
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Reading Assignment
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Other Assignment
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Week 1
4 Sept
In class
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Studying the City: Space and Place. Introduction to doing fieldwork in the city.
Identify potential case-studies for research
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Introduction to Cities : How Place and Space Shape Human Experience
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Chapter 1
(Read online:
ebook through EBL)
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Students begin selecting research area/focus
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Week 2
11 Sept
In class
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Lecture: Rome’s Urban and Social Development
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Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City
Introduction
(Handout/Book on reserve)
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Students narrow down research focus
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Week 2 B
12 Sept
Optional
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Neighborhood walk: Esquilino and Monti
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Week 3
18 Sept
In class
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Lecture: Theories of the City.
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Introduction to Cities : How Place and Space Shape Human Experience
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Chapters 2&3
(Read online:
ebook through EBL)
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Students identify narrow research topic/question. Start reading appropriate theoretical and secondary materials
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Week 4
25 Sept
In class and library
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Lecture and discussion on ethnographic research methods.
Library Session
DEADLINE: Students declare narrow and manageable research topic/question
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Introduction to Cities : How Place and Space Shape Human Experience
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Chapter 4
(Read online:
ebook through EBL) |
Students write an 8 page summary of the relevant secondary literature on their chosen topic, to be handed in in Week 6
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Week 5
2 Oct
In class
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Lecture and discussion on ethnographic research methods.
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Anthropology in the City : Methodology and Theory Chapter 7
(Read online:
ebook through EBL)
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As above
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Week 6
9 Oct
In class
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Class discussion on chosen research methods. Decide schedule for fieldwork.
DEADLINE: Students hand in 8-page literature summary
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Students write brief research plan justifying their chosen methods of observation, to be handed in in Week 7
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Week 6B
10 Oct
Optional
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Neighborhood walk: Testaccio
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Week 7
16 Oct
On-site
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Observation class on-site: Corviale
Studying urban poverty and inequality.
DEADLINE: Students hand in research method plan
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Stupendous, Miserable City : Pasolini’s Rome, Chapter 1
(Read online:
ebook through EBL)
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Week 8
23 Oct
Individual
meetings
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Students begin fieldwork research. Individual meetings with professor.
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Students begin fieldwork journal
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Week 9
30 Oct
On-site
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Observation class on-site: Mandrione and Tor Pignattara
Studying ethnic neighborhoods
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Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City
Introduction Chapter 5
(Handout/Book on reserve)
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Students continue fieldwork research and journal
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Week 10
6 Nov
Individual
meetings
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Students complete fieldwork research. Individual meetings with professor.
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Students continue journal and prepare oral presentation on their findings and preliminary analysis.
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Week 11
13 Nov
In class
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DEADLINE: Students do oral presentation on their findings and preliminary analysis. Receive feedback and decide outline of written/visual report.
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Students complete any outstanding fieldwork research following class feedback
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Week 12
20 Nov
On-site and in class
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Observation class on-site: Jewish Quarter. Studying segregation and gentrification.
Class discussion on writing up findings, integrating theory, methodology and results.
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Students work on writing up full research project
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Week 13
27 Nov
Individual meetings
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NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING
MAKE-UP DATE TBA
Individual meetings with students on development of research report
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Students prepare oral presentations on full research project
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Week 14
4 Dec
In class
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DEADLINE: Students orally present their final project
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Students use feedback on oral presentations to finalize written project
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Exams Week
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Participate in Social Sciences poster session
DEADLINE: Students hand in written version of final project and fieldwork journals
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