Module GEOG1071: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Department: Geography

GEOG1071: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Prerequisites

• None

Corequisites

• None

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None

Aims

• To introduce students to the core concepts in human geography, including, in particular, Nature, Data, Space/Place, Scale, Home, Body, Landscape and World
• To introduce students to the various approaches human geographers have used to understand and develop these concepts in response to specific societal challenges
• To use a variety of case studies to illustrate core concepts and approaches in human geography.

Content

• The module examines the above core concepts within human geography. Where appropriate, it showcases how research currently being undertaken by members of the Geography Department makes use of these concepts in order to understand and intervene in contemporary debates and societal challenges. To reflect the unique expertise of the teaching team, a combination of four of these concepts is introduced in any given year.
• The module is taught in distinctive lecture blocks each of which addresses one of the above mentioned core concepts.

Learning Outcomes

• On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
• Demonstrate comprehension of a range of human geographical ideas, concepts and approaches.
• Understand how and why geographers have developed new approaches in response to contemporary challenges and epistemological problems.
• To recognise how differing ideas, concepts and approaches are reflected in research and in response to the diversity of places, meaning, human lifeworlds and the production of difference and inequality.
• To assess, judge and critically evaluate competing intellectual positions.
• Critically engage with key issues in human geography

• On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
• Critically judge and evaluate evidence
• Abstracting and synthesising information
• Developing a reasoned argument

• Self-directed learning
• Written communication
• Contextualising information

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 70 mini-lectures.
• These provide the context in which the core concepts and related research case studies are conveyed, contributing to building knowledge and understanding.
• Lectures are complemented by 9 asynchronous learning activities (e.g. discussion boards, quizzes etc.) and 8 small group tutorials where key skills relevant to undergraduate study are developed.
• Full reading lists provide students with the means to undertake independent study and learning.
• Formative assessment and 50% of summative assessment is marked and returned by tutors, who will provide individual feedback to support student development.
• Two essays (one summative at 50%) provide students the opportunity to explore in greater detail selected themes drawn from the module.
• The four assessed tutorial sessions contribute to the module learning outcomes by providing students the opportunity to demonstrate their comprehension of module content, to evaluate evidence, synthesise information, and, in a self-directed manner, to communicate complex information through its contextualisation.
• The other half of the summative assessment is based on an unseen examination (50%) designed to assess students' acquisition of the learning outcomes

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

Formative Assessment will take place in the form of a formative essay (max 4 x A4 sides). Further formative feedback will be based on tutorial sessions and through the integrated asynchronous learning activities.

■ 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