Seminar - Contemporary Urban Studies IS-FA-00086S

Description: The subjects is concentrated on the contemporary urban studies. Based on the original texts captures current thinking about important topics in urban studies and town planning. After introduction as short lectures, walks with showing some examples in the city area, the students task will be to discuss the described topics with lecturer. The seminary will be preceded by homework which will be reading of original texts with understanding, so also prepare and learning the vocabulary connected with urban studies.

As the evaluation is preparing the presentations with examples of their own towns, concentrating on the problems discussed through the semester.
The described methodology was created at San Francisco State University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. It introduce students to thinking about modern cities with interdisciplinary context used in urban studies.

The skills and knowledge which student gain:
* knowledge about contemporary urban theories with their historical context,
* tunderstanding and describing urban problems,
* increase of level of specialist language used in urban studies,
* skills for preparation the presentations of scientific research.

Requirements:
The seminar is dedicated for students of Architecture, Spatial Planning, eventually on Landscape Design. Required is reading in English in the level B2