Module Catalogue 2025/26

Pre Requisite Comment

None

Co Requisite Comment

Incoming exchange students ONLY

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.
This exchange module focuses on development geographies, and how these are shaped by global political relations

Outline Of Syllabus

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
Seminar

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

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 global development.

Appreciate the distinctiveness of place and the way it is remade by development 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.

Understand critically how everyday and global politics shape each other, and the global map of nation states

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 Rationale And Relationship

Jointly taught with GEO1010

Lectures provide the core material in the course, seminars given an opportunity to explore in more depth.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The essay will provide students with the opportunity to explore aspects of the module in greater depth. The essay will provide a means of assessing their ability to place and synthesise the material gained from lectures in addition to empirical, conceptual and theoretical understandings derived from their own independent study. The essay will also assess students’ ability to critically and succinctly evaluate such material.

The article review will be done in advance of the essay, with the students explaining how they will use the article to help answer the question. This will provide the students with feedback.

General Notes

N/A