Students are broken into five groups and provided with information about a cultural celebration or holiday. They then work together to decide how they want to teach the rest of the class about their assigned tradition.
Designed to follow “Me, Myself and Others – Part One,” in which students were provided with information about a cultural celebration or holiday and worked together to decide how they would teach about their assigned tradition, in this lesson, students present their cultural holiday or tradition to the rest of the class.
The primary purpose of this seminar is to enable students to craft approaches to so-called “First World”/ “Third World” city comparisons that are theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous, contextually grounded, and significantly beneficial. Since there exists very little literature and very few projects which compare “First World” and “Third World” cities in a sophisticated and genuinely useful manner, the seminar is structured around a series of readings, case studies, and discussions to assist students in becoming mindful of the potential and pitfalls of comparative analysis, the types of data, the methods of analysis, and the urban issues or sectors which may benefit the most from such approaches. The course is designed to be interdisciplinary and interactive, and is geared towards masters and doctoral students.
Short film and discussion questions