Syllabus

GGM-105: First Year tutorials
Instructor: Dani Arribas-Bel
Meeting times: Thursdays 12pm - 1pm, office G36

Readings for each Week Will be provided, at the latest, the Week before at the tutorial session.

• Semester 1
• Semester 2

Semester 1 - Autumn

Week 0

• First meeting
• Receive first reading

Week 1

• Reading: except from “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, by Jane Jacobs (1961). Pages 50-54
• Set Essay 1
• Discussion on plagiarism (see the University’s code of practice)

Week 2

• Discuss outline of entire course
• Reading: “Cities and Regions in the Twenty-First Century: Why Do They Develop and Change?” (pdf). Chapter 1 in “Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development”, by Michael Storper (2013).

Week 3

• Deadline to submit Essay 1
• Reading: “Introduction”. Chapter 1 in “The New Geography of Jobs”, by Enrico Moretti (2012).

Week 4

• Readings:
  • “What is critical reading?” (pdf) Learning Development resource by the University of Leicester.
  • “Other things equal - Economical Writing: An Executive Summary” (pdf) by Deirdre McCloskey.
• Skills of the day (check their pages under Notes): searching, reading and writing

Week 5 - Progress review tutorials

• Return Essay 1
• 10 minute individual discussions

Week 6

• Reading: “The Search for the Future Inside Ourselves – Life on the New Frontier” (html). Chapter 1 in “Edge city: Life on the New Frontier”, by Joel Garreau (1991).
• Skill of the day: writing

Week 7 - Reading Week

• Field course

Week 8

• Reading: “Overview”, Chapter 1 in “The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo”, by Saskia Sassen (1991, 1st Ed.; 2001, 2nd Ed.).
• Set Essay 2
• Skill of the day: speaking

Week 9

• Reading: “Consumer city”, by Edward L. Glaeser, Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz (2001). Journal of Economic Geography, 1. Pages 27-50 (link)
• Touch base on progress of the essay
• Skill of the day: citing

Week 10

• Deadline to submit Essay 2
• Reading: “The Kind of a Problem a City Is” by Luís Bettencourt (pdf). Chapter in Die Stadt entschlüsseln, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti (2013).

Semester 2 - Spring

Week 2

• Organization of Seminars for Second Semester

Week 3 - Progress Review Tutorials

• Return Essay 2
• 10 minute individual discussions

Week 4

• Essay 3 topic discussion
• Milestone: topic chosen

Week 5

• Essay 3 topic discussion
• Milestone: reading list completed

Week 6

• Essay 3 topic discussion
• Milestone: struture of ideas and text

Week 7

• Essay 3 writing
• Discussion on difficulties in preparing the essay

Week 8 - No tutorial

• Deadline to submit Essay 3 (Tuesday noon, details)

Week 9

• Speaking skills
• Discussion about presentation (see notes)

Week 10

• Presentations (Monday 10:00am/1:00pm, G-36)