Course syllabus autumn 2025
Course syllabus autumn 2025
Title
Locations of Culture - History and Place
Swedish title
Kulturens rum - Historia och platser
Course code
KK681A
Credits
7.5 credits
Grading scale
UA / Excellent (A), Very Good (B), Good (C), Satisfactory (D), Pass (E) or Fail (U)
Language of instruction
English
Decision-making body
Faculty of Culture and Society
Syllabus approval date
2021-09-15
Syllabus valid from
2022-08-29
Entry requirements
General entry requirements + English 6
Bachelor's degree (180 credits) or equivalent in social sciences, humanities or arts.
General eligibility + the equivalent of Swedish higher secondary school English 6.
Level
Advanced level
Main field
Cultural Studies
Progression level
A1N
Progression level in relation to degree requirements
The course is included in the main field of Cultural Studies and can be included in the degree requirements for a Master's degree in Cultural Studies.
Course objectives
The aim of this course is for students to apply theoretical knowledge by focusing on the embodied experiences of “place”, “location”, and “positioning” as integral to cultural negotiations of history.
Course contents
Territories, borders, and their transgressions are growing preoccupations, and have created frictions in the domain of cultural production. The “site” (a city, a community, a geo-political entity, the data cloud) has a determining role in shaping how questions are posed, when and which bodies interact, what and how things are done. This course uses theory to explore specific geographic situations and case studies where culture is the arena for ongoing negotiations of power. Students are encouraged to investigate and experience cultural phenomena in public spaces, as well as to engage with storytellers, guides, and keepers of memory.
Learning outcomes
On completion of the course the student will be able to:
- demonstrate an in-depth understanding of how different voices contribute to culture and memory in public space
- demonstrate the ability to analyse cultural phenomena
- demonstrate the ability to orally present research findings
- consider and/or apply ethical perspectives to cultural encounters in public space
- demonstrate the ability to critically reflect over one’s own role and position as a researcher
Learning activities
Lectures, seminars with invited guests, workshops, city walks/excursions.
Assessment
One presentation where all learning outcomes will be assessed.
Course literature
- Atkinson, David, Peter Jackson, David Sibley, and Neil Washbourne. Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts. London: I.B. Tauris & Co, 2010.
- Szeman, Imre, and Timothy Kaposy (eds). Cultural Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Print.
- Verdecchia, Guillermo. Fronteras Americanas: (American Borders).Burnaby, BC: Talon Books, 1997.
- Yusoff, Kathryn. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
Supplementary articles, literature and other media will be provided.
Course evaluation
The University provides all students who are participating in, or have completed, a course to express their experiences and views on the course through a course evaluation which is organized at the end of the course. The university will collate the course evaluations and provide information about their results and any actions prompted by them. The results shall be made available to the students. (HF 1:14).
Interim rules
When a course is no longer given, or the contents have been radically changed, the student has the right to re-take the examination, which will be given twice during a one year period, according to the syllabus which was valid at the time of registration.
Additional information
The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.