- Course Code
- GG 1509
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr J.E Schofield
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Notes
This course may not be included in a graduating curriculum with GG 1506, GG 1507 or GC 1501.
Overview
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.
Structure
2 1-hour lectures per week + 6 1-hour workgroups.
Assessment
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%.
Formative Assessment
The course includes a practical assignment, a group poster/presentation, and an essay. Students must also sit a mock exam/class test (or similar). However, with just 12 weeks, 6 workgroups and a degree exam exemption system that requires summative assessment of coursework, it is difficult to arrange stand-alone formative assessment. It makes more sense to consider feedback/feedforward in terms of onwards progression: e.g. students write a coursework essay which is summatively assessed, but comments provided on this should help students to improve their performance next time: e.g. in the follow-up Level 2 courses.
Feedback
Students receive individual, written feedback on their coursework using standard comments sheets.