GLOBAL STUDIES MODULE FORMAT
Ivy Tech Community College North Central- Global Studies Program
Name: Katherine Kent
School: SOFAD/University and Transfer Division
Course Number and Title: HUMA250 Travel Study
Module Title: City Study: Compare & Contrast
Description of the Module:
Educational Objectives of the Module (should constitute a minimum of 12% of the course):
1. Research and demonstration of a basic understanding of both the home country/city and the destination area of
study including the topics of history, culture, society, arts, economics, politics, and technology.
2. Comparison and contrast the home country/city and the area of study
3. Synthesis of research demonstrating descriptive and analytical communication skills in thinking, writing, and
presenting
Listing of Resources Used to Support the Module (readings, videos, podcasts, documentaries, etc.):
 London: A History by Jeremy Black
 London : A Social History by Roy Porter
 The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the
Modern World
 PBS Documentaries & Series, travel & language guides, fictional literature, architectural & art guides
Description of the Assignments Used to Facilitate an Understanding of the Module Objectives (writings, interviews,
reflections, experiential projects or field work):
Your City is preparing the plans for a new and improved downtown area. Hearing of your expertise, they have asked for
your help to bring solid ideas to the planning council in the areas of ________________(discipline/program of study).
They want to know what makes ________ (city) so great and are sending you and a team of advisors to bring back best
practices in two areas: 1) policies and practices in your discipline/field, and 2) city planning & design that can be
integrated into your city’s master development plan. So, you start your research:
Compare & Contract: Historical Context
To get started, you must develop an understanding of the destination city through the study of the history of the
region, the populace, art and culture, the political, religious, and economical systems and the built environment:
a. Summarize the History of the destination city
i. When was the city founded or settled?
ii. Why was the city located where it is?
iii. What are the resources of the city’s location?
iv. What obstacles were needed to settle the city?
v. Who settled the city? (Nationalities, cultures, professionals, tradespeople, etc.)
vi. Who followed and why?
vii. What influence did the early settlers have on culture, art, architecture, philosophies, religions,
neighborhoods and community development?
viii. History of leadership in the city including:
1. Political system
2. Religious system
3. Educational system
4. Art & Design Community (artists, architects, city planners)
b. Analyze and Describe the Design of the City
i. How did the design of the city take shape over the years?
1. Where is the Historical City Center?
2. Where is the current City center?
ii. Major sights and significant architecture (cathedrals, palaces, monuments, homes)
1. What is/was it? What is/was it used for?
2. Who were the designers, engineers involved and the dates of construction?
iii. Public resources, transportation, communication, health care, etc.
c. What is the global role of the destination country?
Exercise: Research and analyze the history and development of _____ (city). Prepare your research into
a visual presentation and a one page outline. Include photos, maps or illustrations as necessary. Use the
internet, or guide books and cite all additional sources. Post your presentation and outline to the
Discussion Board on or before_______.
Evaluation/Testing Used to Assess the Comprehension of the Module:
Research paper
Oral and Visual Presentation
Resources & Bibliography (used with permission from the “London City of Change” course outline, London South Bank
University):
Background of reading and resources on London: The Global City
Roy Porter (1994) ‘Victorian Life’ in London: A Social History, London, Penguin
Dyos, H and Woolf, M (1998) The Victorian City, London, Routledge
Foster, Janet (1999) Docklands: Cultures in Conflict: Worlds in Collision, London, UCL. 15
Deborah Stevenson (2003) 'Meaning & Memory: Reading the Urban Text' in Cities & Urban Cultures (2003),London, OUP.
Michel de Certeau 'The practice of everyday life’) pp111-118) in The Blackwell City Reader, eds. Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson,
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Highmore, Ben ( 2005) Cityscapes : cultural readings in the material and symbolic city, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New
York : Palgrave Macmillan
Setha. M. Law (1999) Theorising the city: The new urban anthropology reader, NJ, London, Rutgers University Press.
Jonathan Raban (1974) Soft City, London, Picador.
Deborah Stevenson (2003) Cities and Urban Cultures (2003),London, OUP.
R.Rotenberg and G McDonogh (1993) The cultural meaning of urban space, Westport, Conn : Bergin & Garvey
Jo Vergunst , Rhythms of Walking: History and Presence in a City Street, Space and Culture 2010 13: 376 19
Background reading and resources on Dicken’s London
Visit Museum of London- Dickens and London Exhibition, Southwark area, Convent Garden, the Globe Theatre, Southwark
Cathedral, Borough Market and Tate Modern areas.
Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Bleak House
Dickens, David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles, Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people. 16
Background reading and resources on Imperial London
Visit the Imperial War Museum
Extracts from 'The Blitz: 70 Years On', Guardian, 07/09/10.
Nina Bawden (2005, new edition) Carrie’s War
Elizabeth Bowen (1949) The Heat of the Day
Angus Calder (1991) The Myth of the Blitz
Juliet Gardiner (2010) The Blitz: The British Under Attack, London, Harper Press.
Tom Harrison (1976) Living through the Blitz
Andrea Levy (2004) Small Island, London, Headline Review.
Mike and Trevor Phillips (1998) Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multiracial Britain, London, HarperCollins.
Mary Wesley, The Camomile Lawn (2006, new edition) London, Vintage.
Philip Zeigler (1995) London at War, London, Sinclair-Stevenson
Background reading and resources on British Art in London
Visit the Tate Modern Museum
White, Aiden (2003) ‘Locating art worlds: London and the making of young British art’ in Area (2003) 35, 3, 251-263 – focus on pp
255-263
Buck, L. (2000). Moving Targets 2: A User's Guide to British Art Now. London: Tate Gallery Publishing. Perry Ref: 709.4109049 BUC
Downs, S., Marshall, R., Sawdon, P., Selby, A., & Tormey, J. (Eds). (2007). Drawing now: between the lines of contemporary art.
London: I. B. Tauris. Perry Ref: 741.9243 DRA
Kent, S. (1994) Shark Infested Waters: The Saatchi Collection of Britsh Art in the 90s. London: Zwemmer. Perry Ref: 709.4109049 KEN
Merck, M. and Townsend, C. (eds.) (2002) The Art of Tracey Emin. London: Thames and Hudson. Perry Ref: 709.410904
Stallabrass, J. (1999) High Art Lite. London: Verso. Perry Ref: 709.4109049 S 20
Background reading and resources on London in Cinema
Reading is geared toward the film A Hard Day's Night (Richard Lester, 1964)
View screening of Shane Meadow’s Somers Town (2008), A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester, 1964), Alfie (1966), “Swinging London”
films of the 1960s, Hitchcock’s 1927 film The Lodger.
Television Series, Dr. Who
Alfred Hitchcock, Stephe Frears, “Thatcherite” period of the 19080
Rowana Agajanian, 'Nothing Like Any Previous Musical, British or American: The Beatles Film, A Hard Day's Night' in A. Aldgate, J.
Chapman and A. Marwick (eds.) (2000), Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture, London and N.Y.: I.B.
Tauris, pp.91-113
Maurizio Cinquegrani, 'The Cinematic Production of Iconic Space in the Early Films of London', in R. Koeck and L. Roberts, The City
and the Moving Image: Urban Projections, Hampshire and N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.169-82
N.B. This is an e-book available as an e-resource from the Library Catalogue. You can print it out if you want to. 21
S to the “Blairite” vision of London the Global city in the 2000s.
Pamela Church Gibson, 'Imaginary Landscapes, Jumbled Topographies: Cinematic London', in J. Kerr and A. Gibson (eds.) (2003),
London from Punk to Blair, London: Reaktion Books, pp.363-69
Background reading and resources on Crime and the city :
Visit: Jack the Ripper Walking Tour, Walk around the East End, Jack Shepherd (18 th century folk hero)
Darren Oldridge (2007) ‘Casting the spell of terror: the press and the early Whitechapel murders’ in Warwick, Alexandra and Willis,
Martin (2007) Jack the Ripper: Media, Culture, History, Manchester University Press. 22 Maggie Wykes (2001) ‘Disorderly publics:
race in the inner cities’ in News, Crime and Culture, London, Pluto.
Curtis, L (2001) Jack the Ripper and the London Press
Evans, S and Skinner, K (2001) Jack the Ripper: Letters from Hell
Cottle, S (2004) The racist murder of Stephen Lawrence: media, performance and public transformation.
Background reading and resources on the regeneration of London:
Visit: London Museum - Docklands
Bowie D, Politics Planning and Homes in a World City, London, Routledge, 2010
Buck N., Working Capital: Life and labour in contemporary London, Routledge, 2002
Hall P., London 2001, London, Unwin Hyman 1989
Hamnett C., Unequal City: London in the Global Arena, Routledge 2003
Hebbert M., London: More By Fortune Than Design, Wiley 1998
Imrie R, Lees L & Raco M., Regenerating London, London, Routledge, 2009
Massey D., World City, Polity Press 2007
Simmie J., Planning London, UCL 1994
Thornley A., The Crisis of London, Routledge 1992 23
Background reading and resources on London and the theatre:
Visit: Theater performance
Griswold, Wendy (1986) Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, Univ. Chicago
Kershaw, Baz (2004) Cambridge History of the British Theatre, CUP.
Shaw, Bernard (1912) Pygmalion
Wilde, Oscar – works
Eckardt et al (1987) Oscar Wilde’s London: A scrapbook of vices and virtues 1800-1900, NY, Anchor Press, Doubleday
Holder, Heidi (2003) Outcast London at the Victorian and Edwardian stage, NY, NY MATC Press.
Kaplan, Joel and Stowell, Sheila (1994) Theatre and Fashion: Oscar Wilde to the Suffragettes, NY NY CUP
Nord, Deborah Epstein (1998) The city as theatre: from Georgian to early Victorian London, Bloomington, IUP