Arts and the City: People, Power, and Protest

SALC21152 Arts and the City: People, Power, and Protest 20 Semester 2 Undergraduate Level 2 Wren Radford Unit coordinator School of Arts, Languages and Cultures 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Middle part of Bachelors ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 10.0 Manchester is a culturally significant and diverse city in the North-West of the UK. Like any city, it faces a number of challenges as a result of global industrial shifts, new patterns of work and leisure, and flows and frictions between different cultures and ideas. Once a bastion of the Industrial Revolution, and now, in its post-Industrial state, at the forefront of innovations in computing and technology, a hotbed of revolutionary ideas, and important in sport and the arts, Manchester has gone through many changes and yet it retains a cultural identity.  This module takes Manchester as a starting point for interdisciplinary exploration in the arts and humanities. We examine the values and politics of researching a complex city, reflecting on what different methodologies and methods might be suitable for examining key social issues in the contemporary city. Through a variety of media, the course examines different case studies from Manchester, enabling you to analyse themes around historical memory, gender and sexuality, race and religion, ecology and industry, with a key focus on issues of social change.  Manchester is a culturally significant and diverse city in the North-West of the UK. Like any city, it faces a number of challenges as a result of global industrial shifts, new patterns of work and leisure, and flows and frictions between different cultures and ideas. Once a bastion of the Industrial Revolution, and now, in its post-Industrial state, at the forefront of innovations in computing and technology, a hotbed of revolutionary ideas, and important in sport and the arts, Manchester has gone through many changes and yet it retains a cultural identity.  This module takes Manchester as a starting point for interdisciplinary exploration in the arts and humanities. We examine the values and politics of researching a complex city, reflecting on what different methodologies and methods might be suitable for examining key social issues in the contemporary city. Through a variety of media, the course examines different case studies from Manchester, enabling you to analyse themes around historical memory, gender and sexuality, race and religion, ecology and industry, with a key focus on issues of social change.  <ul><li>To develop students’ insights into the connections between the academy and society;</li><li>To familiarise students with the cultural context of Manchester and its dynamism;</li><li>To highlight the importance of the arts in shaping and reshaping culture.</li></ul> <ul><li>An understanding of the dynamics of Manchester’s rich, diverse, multifaceted culture;</li><li>Familiarity with some of the issues facing Manchester;</li><li>An understanding of the importance of context and an ability to approach this through interdisciplinary methods (i.e. historical, geographical, intellectual, cultural);</li><li>More detailed and critical knowledge of some of the challenges through summative assessments.  </li></ul> <ul><li>Use Manchester as a laboratory for Liberal Arts (i.e. interdisciplinary, challenge-led) learning;</li><li>Identify and select appropriate sources for the development of independently-researched written and oral work;  </li><li>Apply skills to problem-solving tasks and examination of case studies through seminars;</li><li>Articulate, and suggest contributions to, the relationship between the arts (and art-based research) and culture;</li><li>Begin to develop ideas and resources for the Engagement Project in Year ¾. </li></ul> <ul><li>Critical reading and application in development of an argument;</li><li>Group work and communication of ideas in co-operation with others;</li><li>Ability to prepare and deliver a research reflection</li><li>Independent approach to research;</li><li>Reflective and self-aware learning. </li></ul> <ul><li>An interdisciplinary competence;</li><li>Critical and analytical skills highlighted through engagement with key texts and key themes and issues;</li><li>Self-organisation skills and an ability to plan research in order to meet course deadlines;</li><li>An ability to work independently, including conducting independent research, and to work with others in group work tasks;</li><li>Effective oral and written communication skills. </li></ul> Other - An ability to apply intellectual discussions to real-world situations through case studies, problem-solving activities, and an emphasis on challenge-led learning; - An ability to appropriately balance breadth and depth of research; - An understanding of different disciplinary approaches and an ability to empathise with, listen to, and respond to different perspectives. Topics can include:  <ul><li>Revolution and protest – radical memory and history  </li><li>Inequality and poverty  </li><li>Religion and migration  </li><li>Creative walking and placemaking  </li><li>Urban planning and health inequalities  </li><li>Trauma and collective memory  </li><li>Sustainability and urban ecology  </li><li>Race and oral history  </li><li>Queering Manchester  </li><li>Social responsibility and the civic university  </li></ul> Weekly interactive lectures, seminars, and skills workshops; in addition, students are encouraged to attend weekly office hours to discuss queries and/or feedback.  0 Other 100% <figure class="table"><table><tbody><tr><td>Assessment task</td><td>Formative or Summative</td><td>Length</td><td>Weighting within unit (if relevant)</td></tr><tr><td>Reflective Portfolio Plan</td><td>Formative</td><td>500 words</td><td>0%</td></tr><tr><td>Research Essay</td><td>Summative</td><td>2800 words</td><td>70%</td></tr><tr><td>Reflective Portfolio</td><td>Summative</td><td>1200 words</td><td>30%</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>  <figure class="table"><table style="width:500px;" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr><td>Written (and optional oral) feedback on short essay</td><td>Formative</td></tr><tr><td>Oral feedback on contributions to class discussions from peers and teaching staff</td><td>Formative</td></tr><tr><td>Written (and optional oral) feedback on summative assignments</td><td>Summative</td></tr></tbody></table></figure>  N <ul><li>DiYanni, Robert and Anton Borst, eds., Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 1: The Humanities (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2017)</li><li>Beckett, John, Writing Local History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)</li><li>Glick Schiller, Nina, ‘Localized neoliberalism, multiculturalism and global region: exploring the agency of migrants and city borders’, Economy and Society 40.2 (2011): 211-38</li><li>Matras, Yaron and Alex Robertson, ‘Urban Multilingualism and the Civic University: A Dynamic, Non-Linear Model of Participatory Research’, Social Inclusion 5.4 (2017): 5-13</li><li>Nevell, Michael, Manchester: The Hidden History (Stroud: The History Press, c2008)</li><li>Wildman, Charlotte, Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)</li><li>Janet Wolff and Mike Savage (eds.), Culture in Manchester: Institutions and Urban Change Since 1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013).</li><li>Charlotte Wildman, ‘Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939’, The Historical Journal, Vol. 55, No. 1 (2012), pp. 119-143.</li><li>Stuart Hylton, A History of Manchester (Chichester: Phillimore, 2003).</li><li>Lynne Pearce, ‘Manchester: The Postcolonial City’, in Lynne Pearce, Corinne Fowler, and Robert Crawshaw (eds.), Postcolonial Manchester: Diaspora Space and the Devolution of Literary Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), pp. 20-78. </li></ul> Lectures 22 Seminars 11 0 167