Module Identifier | GG25810 | |||||||||||
Module Title | SOCIAL AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES | |||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | |||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Dr Peter R Merriman | |||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | |||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 18 Hours. 9 x 2 hours | ||||||||||
Seminars / Tutorials | 2 Hours. 1x2 hours | |||||||||||
Assessment |
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SECTION 1: INTRODUCTORY LECTURES AND SEMINAR
1. Module Introduction
Introduction to Social Geography
2. Introduction to Cultural Geography
3. Seminar: Relevance and social and cultural geography
SECTION 2: CENTRAL THEMES
4. Representation
5. Mobility
6. Identity
7. Commodities and Consumption
8. Exclusion
9. More-than-human geographies
SECTION 3: CONCLUSIONS
10. New directions in social and cultural geography
Course summary
Problem solving | The module will develop students' problem-solving skills in the group seminar classes, where they will discuss selected academic articles relating to the theme of relevance. The student group seminar presentations will be assessed. | ||
Research skills | Students are expected to supplement lecture materials by undertaking research in the university library, while their research skills will also be developed in group seminar discussions. | ||
Communication | The module will help students to develop their written and oral communication skills. Group seminar discussions and presentations will enable students to develop their oral communication skills, and the examination will enable students to practice and enhance their written communication skills. Each student will be expected to contribute to the group oral presentation and the presentation mark will include both a group component (70%) and an individual component (30%). | ||
Improving own Learning and Performance | Student attendance and participation in the lectures, and their undertaking of the written examination and group seminar presentation, will help them to enhance a range of learning skills. The module requires students to undertake sixty hours of self-directed study. | ||
Team work | The module includes a two hour seminar which requires students to work in small groups, discuss a series of readings, and debate their findings with the class. These exercises will develop the students' team-working skills. | ||
Information Technology | Students will develop their IT skills through the use of bibliographic search engines, Blackboard, the library catalogue, and standard word-processing packages. | ||
Application of Number | Not developed in this module | ||
Personal Development and Career planning | The module will help students to develop key transferable skills, in addition to raising important questions which will help them to think about their role as citizens within society. The course discusses themes which will be invaluable for students wishing to undertake postgraduate study in human geography. | ||
Subject Specific Skills | The module will enable students to practice subject-specific skills which they have developed in years one and two, including techniques for analyzing social and cultural texts. Students will develop their analytical skills through seminar discussions and in their examination. |
This module is at CQFW Level 5