Undergraduate Course: Utopianism: Space, Place, and Order (LLLJ07013)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course is not available to University of Edinburgh matriculated students. This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.
This course will explore the important and significant role utopian political thought plays in the formation of society and its built environment. We will examine various utopian (and dystopian) writings to explore their relationship to contemporary societies' uses of spaces and places, specifically as a means to attain social order and stability. |
| Course description |
Introduction:
1. Utopian political thought: History
2. Four Time-Spaces
3. Four Heterotopes
Arcadia:
1. Order in the Past
2. Religious: The Garden of Eden
3. Political: Locke and Hobbes' States of Nature and Civility
Utopia:
1. Order in the Present
2. Ancient Times: Plato's Republic
3. The Renaissance: Sir Thomas Moore
4. The American West: Californian Utopian Communities
Dystopia:
1. Disorder in the Present
2. Mediaeval Torments: Dante's Hell
3. Brave New Worlds: Huxley and Orwell
4. Feminist Malestream Monotonies
Apocalyptia:
1. Order in the Future
2. Messianic: The Book of Revelations
3. Earthly Delights: Diggers and Ranters
4. Freedom of Labour: Marx
Heterotopia I: Formatories:
1. Order From Birth: Hetherington & Heterotopia
2. Foucault on Orphanages & Schools
3. Markus on Schools
Heterotopia II: Factories:
1. Order At Work
2. Markus on Factories
3. Adam Smith and Manufactories
4. Robert Owen and New Lanark
Heterotopia III: Reformatories
1. Order from Correction
2. Bentham on the Panopticon
3. Markus & Foucault on Prisons
4. Parks & Gyms
Heterotopia IV: Informatories
1. Order in Education
2. Public squares, riots and libraries
3. From Speakers Corners to the Internet and the Matrix (film)
Review / Revision: Overview Lecture
Unseen Assessment and Seen Assessment Workshop
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
* Read and investigate utopian literature for themselves;
* Use the appropriate language and understand concepts such as 'heterotopia';
* Provide examples of various types of utopia and heterotopia;
* Relate 'purist' ideals to their compromised use in everyday settings;
* Think about buildings and cities in terms of underlying social relationships of power.
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Reading List
Essential:
Foucault, M., 1977. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. London: Peregrine.
Hetherington, K., 1997. The Badlands of Modernity: Heterotopia and Social Ordering. London: Routledge.
Markus, T., 1993. Buildings & Power: Freedom & Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types. London: Routledge.
More, T.,1516. Utopia. Copyright Free eBook.
Recommended:
Morton, A. L.,1952. The English Utopia. London: Lawrence & Wishart.
Class handouts:
Each week a 4-page Lecture Summary and/or Reading will be provided. Additional material will be available on CD-ROM or via email.
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr James Mooney
Tel: (0131 6)50 3077
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Course secretary | Mrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
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