Module Details

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Title Architecture and Power: Parliaments, Prisons and Courts
Code SOCI372
Coordinator Dr P Jones
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
P.Jones01@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2021-22 Level 6 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Aims

To p rovide students with an introduction to the classic and contemporary social studies of architects, architecture and the built environment (with particular reference to parlaiments, prisons and courts) Encourage reflection on the different methodological and conceptual approaches that underpin such studies; Equip students with the skills to interrogate architecture from a (broadly understood) sociological perspective;


Learning Outcomes

(LO1) You will be able to situate architecture as a distinctive ‘social production’, and understand its implication in political projects and processes at a variety of levels

(LO2) You will gain ability to problematize ahistorical and asocial analyses of architecture

(LO3) You will be able present analysis of a specific architectural project from a coherent sociological perspective

(S1) Improving own learning/performance - Reflective practice

(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Media analysis

(S3) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis

(S4) Critical thinking and problem solving - Creative thinking

(S5) Critical thinking and problem solving - Synthesis

(S6) Research skills - All Information skills


Syllabus

 

Surveying the Architectural Field: Situating Architecture in its Social Place The Social Life of Architecture  Architecture and its Interpretation Architecture and Politics (I): Capitols Architects and Politics (III): S tate Theory     Disciplinary Architecture: The Birth of the Prison A Punishing Architecture: Supermax and Prison Design Architecture and Judgement: Courts and Publics Legal Architecture: Pasts and Futures


Teaching and Learning Strategies

Hybrid - asynchronous pre-recorded lectures
Face to face synchronous seminars, safety permitting

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
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Teaching Method 2 - Seminar
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Teaching Method 3 - Field Work
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Teaching Method 4 - Workshop
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Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 12

12

    6

2

32
Timetable (if known) 60 mins X 1 totaling 12
 
60 mins X 1 totaling 12
 
         
Private Study 122
TOTAL HOURS 154

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
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CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
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No assessment details provided      40       
No assessment details provided      60       

Recommended Texts

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