Module Catalogue 2024/25

GEO1010 : Interconnected World

GEO1010 : Interconnected World

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Dr Kean Fan Lim
  • Co-Module Leader: Dr Kathryn Manzo
  • Lecturer: Dr Raksha Pande, Professor Nick Megoran, Dr Robert Shaw
  • Owning School: Geography, Politics & Sociology
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 1 Credit Value: 20
ECTS Credits: 10.0
European Credit Transfer System
Pre-requisite

Modules you must have done previously to study this module

Pre Requisite Comment

N/A

Co-Requisite

Modules you need to take at the same time

Co Requisite Comment

N/A

Aims

To introduce and provide a foundation for the study of human geography.
To outline the practice of human geography at University level
To introduce core concepts for thinking about global and local life
To provide an understanding of the complex interconnections underpinning everyday life across the globe.

Outline Of Syllabus

5 blocks introducing students to key areas of geographical research. Each block after the Foundations has 5 lectures + 1 seminar

The content list is indicative and subject to change.

FOUNDATIONS
Introduction: Why Geography Matters
Interconnected World Workshop
The Local and the Global
Globalization, A History From Above
Globalization, A History From Below

Foundations Seminar: A Global Sense of Place

ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHIES: PRODUCTION, EXCHANGE AND INTERRELATIONS
The Geography of the Economy
The Global Production System
Finance: Money makes the world go round Consumption Geographies
Alternative Economies
Economic Seminar: Global Production Networks

POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES: CONNECTIONS AND DISPLACEMENT IN A CHANGING WORLD
Intro: Territoriality and the World Map
The State
Geopolitics Migration Citizenship
Political Seminar: Imagined Communities

DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHIES: POVERTY, WEALTH AND POWER
Poverty and the development agenda
Institutions of Development
Climate Change and Development
Gender, Development & Environment (2 lectures)
Development Seminar: Development Theories

SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIES: SELF AND COMMUNITY IN AN INTERCONNETED WORLD
Fragmenting Societies
Living with Difference
Emotional Geographies
China and a World of Cities: Urban social geographies
Encounters and Public Space

Learning Outcomes

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

Teaching and learning is organised to:
- Introduce students to the main principles of human geography and provide a broad awareness of the contribution made by geography to an understanding of the complex and inter-connected nature of the human world.
- Provide a foundation for further study by developing a critical awareness of different human geography approaches to understanding spatial variation in economic, social, and political phenomena.
- Appreciate the distinctiveness of place and the way it is remade by social, economic and political processes.
- Provide an introductory understanding of the way in which human geography processes operate at local, regional, national and global scales and an appreciation of their impact on everyday life.
- Outline the uneven distribution of poverty and develop an informed concern about inequalities of wealth at all scales.

Intended Skill Outcomes

- Encourage students to develop an appreciation of the inter-relatedness of the processes that create the human geographical world and to be able to synthesise the different approaches to understanding them.
- Help students to develop a critical approach to the various aspects of human geography, and to appreciate the provisional and contested nature of geographical knowledge and understanding.
- To encourage effective study and active learning through a variety of class and library activities.
- To develop the ability to interpret qualitative and quantitative information.
- To develop the ability to communicate ideas in written and oral form.
- To begin to develop a number of transferable skills that will serve students well in their University career and beyond

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture281:0028:00Present-in-Person Lectures
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion315:0045:001 assessed essay
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion23:006:00Preparing and completing seminar tasks
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching51:005:00TA taught
Structured Guided LearningStructured research and reading activities221:0022:00Weekly recommended reading and engagement with recommended videos uploaded on Canvas.
Guided Independent StudyIndependent study194:0094:00N/A
Total200:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Lectures provide the core material in the course.

Small group teaching centered on task in which group produces a multiple choice question on theme. Each seminar group feeds a question back to the module leader, which goes into assessment.

Lectures will also be given on assessment guidance and exam revision.

Reading Lists

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Exams
Description Length Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Digital Examination901A75A digital exam in semester 1 assessment period
Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Essay1M251,000 words
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The essay will reflect the content taught in the foundations block, and will help assess students ability to deal with core concepts and context
The exam draws together content from the whole module, meaning that students are required to study and synthesize material from across the module as a whole, rather than only focusing on certain blocks

Timetable

Past Exam Papers

General Notes

N/A

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