ATS2882 · Monash Arts Malaysia: Global city Asia

Overview

Drawing from the wide range of disciplines offered by the Faculty of Arts, Monash Arts Malaysia: Global city Asia uses contemporary Malaysian society as a gateway to understanding the challenges and opportunities occasioned by urbanisation in Asia. With an emphasis on the global networks of trade, people and ideas that originate in and pass through Kuala Lumpur, Monash Arts Malaysia: Global City Asia is delivered in intensive mode, combining expert-led excursions and site visits in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor with interactive in-class activities and discussions at Monash University Malaysia’s Sunway campus. During these excursions you’ll explore diverse city spaces and surrounding areas, engage with people and organisations at the forefront of local social and political issues, and develop the skills to understand and interpret the global Asian city through the lens of social science analysis.

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 examine the role of global cities in Asia and the place of Asia in global economic, social, and political networks and institutions;
2. critically assess Malaysian society and its place in contemporary Asia and globally through the global city of Kuala Lumpur;
3. analyse and interpret the lived experiences of diverse communities and groups in Malaysia;
4. develop skills to undertake independent and group fieldwork in an Asian city.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period 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.