To take this subject, no prerequisites are required, but the experience and training acquired by the student in the first semesters of the Degree will be considered, since concepts presented during the previous stages of their academic training will be expanded. It is advisable to be proficient in handling software as word processors and spreadsheets, and to be accustomed to using bibliography in another language (especially English or French).

Contribution to the curriculum. The subject Geography of the Contemporary City has a mandatory character (with 6 ECTS credits) within the Degree in Humanities and Social Studies. Cities and urban life are key elements to understand contemporary society, because they reflect their socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. The explanation of the changes that affect them are framed in three axes: globalization, inequalities of the current world and environmental crisis. This subject completes the multidisciplinary training of graduates.

Relationship with other matters. It is assigned to the Department of Geography and Territorial Planning, (in the field of Human Geography). It is closely related to the subjects of the same area and also to others in the discipline. Geography of Contemporary City contributes with them to add the spatial dimension in a curriculum focused on humanistic and social disciplines. It will be applied methods, techniques and concepts developed throughout the previous two years, especially skills and abilities acquired in basic subjects such as Geography and Society, or mandatory as Geography of the Developed World and Inequalities and Geography of Globalization. It also has correspondences with Geography of Spain and Castilla-La Mancha, although its spatial scope exceeds that of this subject. On the other hand, given the complexity of the urban phenomenon today, which is composed of multiple facets that can be studied from different points of view (historical, artistic, anthropological ...), it establishes connections with other subjects such as History or History of Art. This justifies carrying out coordinated activities with subjects from these fields in the same course (workshops or joint seminars).

Course competences
Code	Description
E05	To interpret and to make critical judgments on landscape, regional diversity, geographical problems and territorial inequalities on different scales (from global to local level)
E15	To do territorial analyses using cartography, to manage the geographic information to understand current reality, and to identify resources for sustainable development processes
E16	To be capable of using an appropriated work methodology to get first-hand information
T04	To analyze with own criteria and to formulate critical judgements on environmental, social and cultural today's world problems
T05	To compile, to interpret and to classify documents and different data to discern relevant information on cultural, scientific and social subjects
T06	To express well-argued opinions orally or through written reports
T08	To work in multidisciplinary teams demonstrating social and interpersonal skills for cooperation, collaboration and conflict resolution activities
T10	To work autonomously in a flexible, creative and self-directed manner, and to develop attitudes that will allow a lifelong learning process

Course learning outcomes
Description
Interpretation, analysis and critical assessment of the globalization process expressed in spatial and territorial processes, from the global level to the local level.
Capacity to work autonomously and in multidisciplinary teams to collect, to interpret and to classify documents, data and information from a variety of sources.
Additional outcomes
Description
Students will be able: 010102.- To employ work and analysis techniques of Geography for obtaining, representing and analyzing information in order to express judgments in a reasoned manner, orally and in written reports (T4; T5; T6; T8; T10; E16). 02.1.-To interpret texts on urbanism, city and territory. 02.2.- To collect geographic information from various sources, to analyze and interpret it critically and to transmit it in an organized and argued form orally and in writing. 02.3. To develop autonomous and group work applying techniques and methods of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 010105.- To formulate an opinion on the social and environmental characteristics of the contemporary cities and the processes that affect them (E5; E15; T2) 05.1.- To explain the evolution of the diverse issues that have been developed within the Urban Geography. 05.2.-To interpret the current city as a result of history and its relationship with society. 05.3.- To define precisely and critically the causes and consequences of the main current urban processes. 05.4.- To analyze and assess the differences between the different types of cities and the inequalities that manifest themselves within them.

• Unit 1: The urban issue
• Unit 2: The history of the urbanization: from the origins to the industrial city
• Unit 3: The urbanization in the contemporary world: new concepts
• Unit 4: Cities in the global era: urban areas, morphology and urban landscape
• Unit 5: City, plannig and territory

Training Activity	Methodology	Related Competences (only degrees before RD 822/2021)	ECTS	Hours	As	Com	R	Description *
Class Attendance (theory) [ON-SITE]	Lectures	E05 E15 T04 T05	1	25	Y	N	Y
Computer room practice [ON-SITE]	Practical or hands-on activities	E05 E15 T05 T06 T08	0.56	14	Y	N	Y
Workshops or seminars [ON-SITE]	Guided or supervised work	E16 T04 T05 T06 T08	0.32	8	Y	N	Y
Field work [ON-SITE]	Practical or hands-on activities	E15 E16 T08	0.36	9	Y	N	Y
Study and Exam Preparation [OFF-SITE]	Self-study	E05 E15 T10	1.6	40	Y	N	Y
Writing of reports or projects [OFF-SITE]	Guided or supervised work	E15 E16 T05 T06 T10	2	50	Y	N	Y
Progress test [ON-SITE]	Assessment tests	E05 E15 T06	0.16	4	Y	N	Y
Total:			6	150
Total credits of in-class work: 2.4			Total class time hours: 60
Total credits of out of class work: 3.6			Total hours of out of class work: 90

As: Assessable training activity
Com: Training activity of compulsory overcoming
R: Rescheduling training activity

	Grading System
Evaluation System	Face-to-Face	Self-Study Student	Description
Final test	30.00%	0.00%	Evaluation of the theoretical contents and, where appropriate, practical contents of the course, through written examination. Students who pass the partial and / or progress tests do not perform the final exam.
Assessment of activities done in the computer labs	20.00%	0.00%	It will be valued: - Participation in practical sessions and activities scheduled in the classroom. - Appropriate execution in each specific case. - Correct presentation of the practices in the Moodle platform.
Theoretical papers assessment	50.00%	0.00%	Preparation of one or several academic works (individual or group) about the content of the subject, (including the fieldwork session and seminars that are scheduled). It will be taken into account: a) Approach and organization of the works b) The participation in the Seminars and, where appropriate, in the group tutorial sessions that are scheduled. b) Quality of the papers presented according to criteria that will be specified at the beginning of the course (in relation to the information used, relevance of the sources and bibliography, argumentation of the results and formal presentation, among others).
Total:	100.00%	0.00%

Not related to the syllabus/contents
Hours	hours
Computer room practice [PRESENCIAL][Practical or hands-on activities]	14
Workshops or seminars [PRESENCIAL][Guided or supervised work]	8
Field work [PRESENCIAL][Practical or hands-on activities]	50
Study and Exam Preparation [AUTÓNOMA][Self-study]	9
Writing of reports or projects [AUTÓNOMA][Guided or supervised work]	40
Progress test [PRESENCIAL][Assessment tests]	4

Unit 1 (de 5): The urban issue
Activities	Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures]	5
Group 10:
Initial date: 10-09-2019	End date: 30-09-2019

Unit 2 (de 5): The history of the urbanization: from the origins to the industrial city
Activities	Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures]	5
Group 10:
Initial date: 01-10-2019	End date: 15-10-2019

Unit 3 (de 5): The urbanization in the contemporary world: new concepts
Activities	Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures]	5
Group 10:
Initial date: 21-10-2019	End date: 05-11-2019

Unit 4 (de 5): Cities in the global era: urban areas, morphology and urban landscape
Activities	Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures]	5
Group 10:
Initial date: 11-11-2019	End date: 25-11-2019

Unit 5 (de 5): City, plannig and territory
Activities	Hours
Class Attendance (theory) [PRESENCIAL][Lectures]	5
Group 10:
Initial date: 26-11-2019	End date: 17-12-2019

Global activity
Activities	hours

Author(s)	Title	Book/Journal	Citv	Publishing house	ISBN	Year	Description	Link	Catálogo biblioteca
CANTO DEL, Mª D.	Trabajos prácticos de Geografía Humana		Madrid	Síntesis	84-7738-039-2	1988
CAPEL SÁEZ, H.	La morfología de las ciudades II. "Aedes facere": técnica, cultura y clase social en la construcción de edificios		Barcelona	Ediciones del Serbal	84-7628-355-5	2005
GLAESER, E.L.	El triunfo de las ciudades		Madrid	Taurus	978-84-306-0809-6	2011
HALL, T.	Urban Geography		New York	Routledge	978-0-415-34446-3	2007
KNOX, P. L. y MARSTON, S.A.	Human Geography. Places and Regions in Global Context		London	Pearson Education	0-13-101518-4	2004
LOIS, R. (coord)	Los espacios urbanos: el estudio geográfico de la ciudad y la urbanización		Madrid	Biblioteca Nueva	978-84-9940-527-8	2012
ROMERO, J. (coord.)	Geografía Humana		Barcelona	Ariel	84-344-3479-2	2004