Module Identifier | GG23110 | ||
Module Title | THEORY AND PRACTICE IN GEOGRAPHY | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Robert J Mayhew | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Other staff | Deborah P Dixon, Dr Tony Jones, Sarah G Cant | ||
Pre-Requisite | Acceptance to a Single or Joint Honours degree programme in Geography | ||
Co-Requisite | Other core modules for Single or Joint Honours Geographers | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 12 Hours 6 x 2 hours | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 8 Hours 4 x 2 hours | ||
Practical | 8 Hours 4 x 2 hours | ||
Assessment | Semester Exam | 2 Hours Answer two from four questions based on lectures given in weeks 1-5 & 11 inclusive | 50% |
Semester Assessment | Course Work: 2 x in-course assignments / projects based on work undertaken in weeks 6-10 inclusive | 50% | |
Supplementary Exam | Resit of failed exam and / or resubmission of failed in-course assignments. | 100% |
a) describe the historical, philosophical and methodological development of the discipline of Geography from a number of key perspectives
b) evaluate the appropriateness of different conceptual and methodological approaches for undertaking research in Geography.
Section 1
Lectures 1-5, discuss the intellectual heritage of Geography as a discipline prior to 1950 and is followed by all students.
Section 2
Lectures 6-10, develop two parallel streams of intellectual development in the subject - as a natural science and as a social science. B.Sc students follow a series of laboratory-based case studies which examine themes such as 'position fixing', the 'analysis of extreme events' and methodologiesfor field enquiries in physical geography: while B.A. students undertake a lecture and seminar programme examining the theoretical and methodological development of human geography from positivist spatial science to recent post-positivist perspectives.
Section 3
Lecture 11, unites the year group in an exploration of the continuing engagement of geographers with the themes of sustainability and policy relevant research.