Course Co-ordinator: Dr J.E Schofield

Pre-requisite(s): None

Co-requisite(s): None

Note(s): This course may not be included in a graduating curriculum with GG 1506, GG 1507 or GC 1501.

This course examines how geographical patterns and processes are reflected at a varitey of spatial scales (from global to local). Related study blocks will address:

• Environmental change and landscape response;-topography ice and climate, (the cryosphere), and the factors affecting the contemporary distributions of plants, animals and soils (biogeography).


• Globalisation and the challenges to sustainable transport;- regional development and the post-industrial economy of Scotland.


• New social and cultural spaces;- mobility and difference; poverty and exclusion; imaginative geographies and unequal power relationships; memories, places and nations.

2 1-hour lectures per week + 6 1-hour workgroups.

1st Attempt:

• For students who complete the coursework to a satisfactory standard: coursework, 100%.  These students will obtain exemption from the degree exam, and their coursework mark will provide the overall course CAS mark.


• For students who do not obtain exemption from the degree exam: coursework, 50% plus exam, 50%.

 
Resit: Original coursework carried forward, 50%, plus exam, 50%.