Module Identifier | GGM2740 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Module Title | POSITIONING CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2007/2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Matthew Hannah | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Co-Requisite | GGM2240 , PGM0410 , PGM0820 , PGM0210 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 14 x 3 hours lectures | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Seminars / Tutorials | 14 x 2 hours Reading Group | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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Section 2: Core Themes in Cultural and Historical Geography_
Session 4: Cultures of Nature and the Environment
Session 5: Approaches to Landscape
Session 6: Colonialism and Post-colonialism
Session 7: Visualities
Session 8: Representation/Practice
Section 3: Specialist Option Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography_
Sessions 9-13: Students will take 5 seminars from the following:
Performance/performativity
Geographies of science
Cultures of travel and mobility
Cultures of protest
Cultures of collecting
State formation: power and space
Geographies of music
Geographies of film
Modernism
Cartographic cultures
Space, place and identity
Geographies of art and architecture
Fictional geographies
Medieval geographies
Geographies of memory
Material cultures
Emotion and affect
Global cultures
More-than-human geographies
Geographies of technologies
Section 4: Practising Cultural and Historical Geography_
Session 14: Cultural and Historical Geography in Practice
In addition, students undertaking this module are required to attend human geography seminars delivered by guest academic speakers, and the student-led Human Geography Reading Group in which IGES MA students discuss published readings in human geography.
Problem solving | Developed through the 7,000 Project Essays - an independent piece of work demonstrating an appreciation of connections between philosophical, epistemological, and theoretical debates in cultural and historical geography. | ||
Research skills | Developed through the 7,000 project essays (see above) and the Journal, which requires readings, note-taking, and critical reflection. | ||
Communication | Oral skills will be developed through the seminars attached to the main sessions and through their participation in the Human Geography Reading Group. Their oral skills are assessed in leading and chairing a reading group. Written communication is assessed through the Journal, in which students are required to critically evaluate selected readings. Written skills are also assessed through the two essays. | ||
Improving own Learning and Performance | Students will be expected to undertake a significant amount of self-directed study, including extensive reading for the project essays and reading groups. Students will be required to develop self and time-management skills and will receive guidance from the MA coordinator, the module coordinator and the coordinator of the session. | ||
Team work | The different elements of this module involve group-based discussions and activities. Team work is also required in the module main sessions and the reading group, where students are frequently required to discuss concepts and ideas within pairs and within a group setting. The key skills developed here include listening, reflecting, negotiating and debating. | ||
Information Technology | Students will be expected to use information technology in the presentation of their coursework. They will also become familiar with the use of the Internet and the Web of Knowledge in the provision of academic writing¿for example on-line journals (assessed through the Project Essays). | ||
Application of Number | Some reading by students will discuss empirical research based on numerical analysis. | ||
Personal Development and Career planning | Students who wish to pursue careers within the disciplines of cultural and historical geography, i.e. through further research and study, will be encouraged to situate themselves and their work within the particular aspects of the module. | ||
Subject Specific Skills | None: most of the above key skills straddle the boundary between generic M-level skills and subject specific skills in cultural and historical geography. |
This module is at CQFW Level 7