ATI5069 · Field studies in urban policy and governance

Overview

This unit offers field-based perspectives on the policy and governance challenges of urban transformation in developing contexts such as Indonesia. Focusing on Greater Jakarta – one of the world's largest urban agglomerations – the unit offers you a field immersion experience and practice perspectives on the challenges of urban policy making in a diverse, complex, and multilevel governance environment. You will gain first-hand knowledge of policy problems and dilemmas faced by city administrators in critical sectors such as traffic congestion and urban transportation, waste management, and flood control. Through interactions with local governments, communities, the private sector, and CSOs involved in solving such problems, as well as visits to field sites, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the policy and governance challenges of urban transformation.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. critically evaluate concepts and practices in urban policy and governance within an Indonesian context;
2. recognise and explain the linkages between urban policy and governance and the broader context in which decisions relating to urban policy and governance are made;
3. analyse and critically reflect on key challenges and opportunities in urban policy and governance and propose innovative policy solutions.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.