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Course Master
Credits
4 credits
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
This class in urban history and cultural and political geography covers the development of the city in the Western Asia and North Africa. It provides an overview of urban settlement in the Middle East from the beginnings of Islam to the eighteenth century, before focusing on the processes of urbanization in the MENA region from 1800 until today. After defining the specificities of the region’s cities, the emphasis shifts to the interaction between rapid social change, political power and professional planning. Today, uprisings fuelled by demands for social equity and democracy, major conflict driven migrations and the needs of capital all mark cities in the Middle East and North Africa. The course allows students to reflect critically on issues related to managing, planning and designing for extensive city regions, historic centres and poorly serviced self-built areas. Students will thus become aware of the major trends and challenges in cities located at the critical meeting point of Africa and Eurasia.
Term
Fall 2020
Discipline
ME (Middle East Studies)
Type
CCI
Can be taken twice for credit?
Off
Level
Undergraduate
CAMS ID
41559
Code
ME1099FB7
Learning Outcomes
Students will discover how urban geographers, planner and architectural historians analyse the city and eventually intervene, in particular with reference to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA Region).
Students will discover and begin to understand the ways in which the cities of the Middle East and North Africa have been integrated into global patterns of making urban territory (global and local perspective.
Students will discover something of how immigrant groups from the MENA region have come to Paris, shaping the built environment – and how the State has responded to this presence.
Students will improve their skills in the analytic reading of academic text and image.
Students will present work orally, using proprietary software if appropriate.
In addition, students will have experience of working on a group project which will expand their ability to work with digital technologies over the Internet.
Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate (CCI 1).
Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Expression: Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions (CCI 4).
Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class (CCI 3).
Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field.
Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context.
Name
FROM MEDINA TO METROPOLIS: CITIES OF NEAR EAST & NRTH AFRCA
First Name
Justin
Last Name
Mcguinness
Real name
Section
FB7
Start Date
Tuesday, September 22 2020
End Date
Monday, December 21 2020
Start Month
September
Exam Date
Thursday, December 17 2020 - 15:00
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