- Course Code
- GG 2011
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr S Shubin (TBC)
Pre-requisites
Overview
This course examines economic, cultural, social and political change from a spatial perspective, using a range of concepts and case studies. Although intended to provide a foundation for higher level study of human geography, the course is also designed to be accessible to students of cognate disciplines such as anthropology, economics, history, international relations, sociology and spatial planning. Topics to be addressed include, for example: globalisation; uneven development and North-South inequalities; rural change in Western Europe; relationships between place, identity and politics. The various themes are team-taught by staff, often using examples drawn from their own fields of research.
Structure
2 one-hour lectures per week (18 hours in total). 2 one-hour sessions to introduce WebCT based summative exercises, each followed up by 2-hour practical surgery sessions.
Assessment
For students who complete the two coursework exercises 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%).
Original coursework carried forward (50%), plus exam (50%).
Formative Assessment
There is no stand-alone, formal formative assessment. However, feedback on summative assessments should help students to improve their subsequent performances within the course and for follow-up second half-session courses. See box below.
Feedback
Students receive individual, written feedback on their coursework using standard comments sheets. We also provide whole-class feedback via WebCT. This includes the main points of answers/tutors mark schemes to encourage students to review where they gained and lost marks.