Spring 2020 - LBST 331 D200
Selected Topics in Labour Studies (4)
Class Number: 8112
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2020: Wed, 9:30 a.m.–1:20 p.m.
Vancouver
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Instructor:
Anushay Malik
anushaym@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
Will vary according to topic. LBST 101 is strongly recommended for all upper division LBST courses.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Selected topics in areas not currently offered within the undergraduate course offerings. Students may take more than one offering of LBST Selected Topics courses for credit, as long as the topic for each offering is different.
COURSE DETAILS:
The City: A Social History*
He who writes about Hollywood, bougainvilleas and the Mediterranean climate tells but half the story. Sunshine was never enough: Los Angeles workers 1880-2010.This course is a long conversation about the place of class within the city. It starts off with the assumption that the city in geography is a place that exists, but one that is also formed by the everyday practices of people. This process of formation unfolds partially through official planning, but there is a gap between such plans and how people actually interact with, use and thereby make the city. This process of making the city is intrinsically a story of competing claims to space in which the actions of actors are circumscribed by extant power relations and what is believed to be possible.
Informed by the concerns of social history, this course seeks to understand power relations in the city through a local level focus on one specific theme – how is class practiced, built into and made invisible within the city?
The place of the working people of the city and the struggle to be visible within the planning paradigm of the cityscape is an intrinsic part of understanding the place class occupies in the urban context. This place is particularly important when it appears not to exist.
The course draws on theories and examples from all across the world, but the assignments focus on Vancouver and the context around the Harbour Centre building. Students will be expected to take walks and explore the city around this area in the downtown core.
*This course is cross-listed with HIST 372: City Life.
Grading
- Participation 15%
- Field diary and picture 20%
- Discussion leader 10%
- Art installation 20%
- Final research paper 30%
NOTES:
Grading: Where a final exam is scheduled and the student does not write the exam or withdraw from the course before the deadline date, an N grade will be assigned. Unless otherwise specified on the course syllabus, all graded assignments for this course must be completed for a final grade other than N to be assigned. An N is considered as an F for the purposes of scholastic standing.
Grading System: The Undergraduate Course Grading System is as follows:
A+ (95-100) | A (90-94) | A- (85-89) | B+ (80-84) | B (75-79) | B- (70-74) | C+ (65-69) | C (60-64) | C- (55-59) | D (50-54) | F (0-49) | N*
*N standing to indicate the student did not complete course requirements
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
All readings will be posted on Canvas.
Registrar Notes:
SFU’s Academic Integrity web site http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
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