SV-153 Culture-geographical perspectives on planning and social change

Teaching language

Norwegian

Course contents

The course provides a basic introduction to geography perspectives on culture and planning. Culture and cultural understanding offer important openings to understanding society's spatial organization and interaction, how people think and act and how we can better plan for the societal development. The concept of culture is seen in the context of a number of other key social science concepts such as identity, power, mobility, diversity and communication. The course will deal with a variety of topics relevant to understanding how culture and cultural differences can help to understand and analyse everyday life, society's spatial organization, development and planning.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, students will be able to:

• discuss and apply different approaches to the concept of culture, including categories and identification of culture and cultural systems and spatial manifestations of cultural differences

• have a profound understanding about identity, ethnicity, cultural diversity and cultural consequences of mobility and cultural encounters/meetings

• explain and discuss culture as an element in distribution of things, nature and landscape and how these relate to values, everyday life and belonging

• understand culture as a way of live and the cultural practises that constitutes places, landscape, cities, regions and nations

• explain and discuss relations of culture and power, and how culture and cultural differences reflects and helps to create differences between people

• discuss how cultural differences/diversity is important for planning both in terms of theme / content and as a process

• understand culture as a strategic element in the development and profiling of cities and places and culture as a theme for way of live and everyday life planning

Examination requirements

Group work must be passed in order to take the exam.  Further information will be given in Canvas 

Teaching methods

The course will consist of lectures as well as self-organised study groups. Total workload for is 27 hours per study credit.

Evaluation

The study programme coordinator decides, in cooperation with student representative, the form of student evaluation and whether the course is to have a midway or end of course evaluation in accordance with the quality system for education, chapter 4. Information about evaluation for the course will be published in Canvas.

Assessment methods and criteria

3 day individual home exam. Graded grade A-F.