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Undergraduate Programme and Module Handbook 2009-2010 (archived)

Module GEOG1071: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: SPACE AND PLACE IN A CHANGING WORLD

Department: Geography

GEOG1071: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: SPACE AND PLACE IN A CHANGING WORLD

Type Tied Level 1 Credits 20 Availability Available in 2009/10 Module Cap 275 Location Durham
Tied to CFG0
Tied to F800
Tied to FR89
Tied to L702
Tied to LMV0
Tied to LR79
Tied to X1F8

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combination of Modules

  • None

Aims

  • To critically explore the relations between globalization and human geography
  • To use a variety of specific case studies to introduce the latest ideas in human geography about how space and place are changing in the context of globalization
  • To introduce students to a broad range of concepts and approaches in human geography, using scale, from global to local, as the organising framework

Content

  • The module is based on an examination of different scales of inquiry in relation to several substantive themes within human geography:
  • Relationships of cities and globalization
  • Globalisation, health and people’s bodies
  • Development and space
  • Environment, citizenship and globalisation

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:
  • On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
  • demonstrate comprehension of scale and knowledge of the diversity of human lifeworlds, the distinctiveness of place, and the production of variation and inequality
  • assess, judge and critically evaluate competing intellectual positions
  • critically engage with key issues in human geography
Subject-specific Skills:
  • On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
  • abstract information from multiple sources
Key Skills:

    Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

    • The module is based on a programme of lectures
    • These provide the context in which facts and introductory concepts, contributing to building knowledge and understanding, are conveyed
    • Lectures are complemented by small group tutorials where concepts introduced in lectures can be explored in more detail
    • Full reading lists provide students with the means to undertake independent study and learning
    • Formative assessment and 50% of summative assessment is set, marked and returned to tutorial groups
    • Three essays (two summative) provide students with scope to explore in greater detail selected themes drawn from the module
    • The remainder of the summative assessment is based on an unseen examination paper designed to assess students' acquisition of the learning outcomes
    • Tutorials also provide a forum enabling the active acquisition of skills

    Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

    Activity Number Frequency Duration Total/Hours
    Lectures 38 Twice weekly 1 hour 38
    Tutorials 5 Five times annually 1 hour 5 ■
    Preparation and Reading 157
    Total 200

    Summative Assessment

    Component: Examination Component Weighting: 50%
    Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
    unseen written examination 2 questions in 2 hours 100%
    Component: Tutorial Essays Component Weighting: 50%
    Element Length / duration Element Weighting Resit Opportunity
    tutorial essay 1 max.4 sides A4 50%
    tutorial essay 2 max.4 sides A4 50%

    Formative Assessment:

    Three tutorial essays of which two are summative. Essays are not to exceed 4 sides of A4

    ■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University