SCOTLAND: GLOBAL WORLDS, LOCAL CHALLENGES
- Course Code
- GG 1507
- Credit Points
- 20
- Course Coordinator
- Dr A M D Gemmell
Pre-requisites
None - but GG 1006 recommended
Notes
This course updates GG 1506: Scotland in Transition. GG 1507 cannot be included as part of a graduating curriculum along with GC 1501.
Overview
Working with the theme of 'Scotland in Transition' this course examines how global processes produce and reflect local-scale changes. Related study blocks will address:
- Environmental change and landscape response. Topography, climate, reconstruction of past relationships between humans, plants and animals.
- Landscape and society. Environment - opportunity or risk? Resources and hazards as local manifestations of global drivers. People, land, water, soils - who controls what?
- Globalisation - the economics and politics of urban industrial change. Agents and scales of change: nations and states; local government; multinational corporations and local entrepreneurialism. Regional development and the post-industrial economy.
- New social and cultural spaces. Mobility and difference; poverty and exclusion; imaginative geographics: unequal power relationships; memories, places and nations.
Structure
Two hours of lectures per week plus six two-hour, tutor-led workgroups. Students will produce a portfolio of coursework attached to these workgroups.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (67%) and in-course assessment (33%).
Resit: Resit examination - 1 two-hour written examination (67%) PLUS original in-course assessment carried forward (33%).