Delivery Type	Delivery length / details
Lecture	18 Hours. 9 x 2 hours
Seminars / Tutorials	0 Hours.

Delivery Type

Delivery length / details

Lecture

18 Hours. 9 x 2 hours

Seminars / Tutorials

0 Hours.

Assessment Type	Assessment length / details	Proportion
Semester Exam	2 Hours Unseen Examination Paper (complete two from four question set)	100%
Supplementary Exam	2 Hours Unseen Examination Paper (complete two from four question set)	100%

Assessment Type

Assessment length / details

Proportion

Semester Exam

2 Hours Unseen Examination Paper (complete two from four question set)

100%

Supplementary Exam

2 Hours Unseen Examination Paper (complete two from four question set)

100%

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this module students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the key changes taking place within the geography of contemporary capitalism, focusing in particular on the UK, Europe and the United States.

2. Critically evaluate some of the contemporary theoretical approaches to the geography of economic, political, urban and cultural change.

3. Integrate these theoretical approaches towards the interpretation of empirical "observable" processes within a variety of urban, regional and national spaces within 'western' capitalism.

4. Show evidence of the depth of their reading, interpretation and evaluation of current academic and policy practice through the marshalling of an argument in written form.

Aims

Explore key changes taking place within contemporary capitalist space economy and the associated political and social order;
Look specifically at the processes which maintain and unsettle capitalism and how geography is implicated from the global scale to the body.
Introduce a number of theoretical frameworks to help think through geography of key social, economic and political changes.

Brief description

This module focuses on the geographies associated with contemporary capitalism through a number of theoretical approaches The themes addressed in this module include:

Global Economic Restructuring
Fordism and what's next
Alternative Capitalisms
Embodying Capitalism through Commodities, Circuits and Cyborgs
Mediating Capitalism through Housing
Capitalism and the entrepreneurial city
New Political Geographies and changing roles of the state
Thinking through Governance

Skills Type	Skills details
Application of Number	Some quantitative data will be included as source material in lectures. Students will be expected to be able to use and interpret such data, where appropriate in their interpretation of
Communication	The ability to write effectively on the themes covered will be assessed in the examination. Discussion in the lecture period will be encouraged but not assessed.
Improving own Learning and Performance	This module requires an additional three hours self-directed work for each one hour taught - this will necessitate that each student develops self-management and time managment skills.
Information Technology	Students will be introduced to the availability, use and evaluation of data and other material derived from on-line sources. Such material may be cited in answers offered on the examination paper.
Personal Development and Career planning	The themes addressed in this module provide an important context through which to consider various future career and life paths.
Problem solving	The themes addressed in the module identify the challenges facing policy and planning and students are required to be aware of the nature of such problems and reflect critically on strategies that have been adpoted to address them.
Research skills	Will be developed and expanded through the range of reading and web-based policy sources examined in support of this module.
Subject Specific Skills	No additional subject-specific skills are developed, existing ones may be practiced in the examination.

Skills Type

Skills details

Application of Number

Some quantitative data will be included as source material in lectures. Students will be expected to be able to use and interpret such data, where appropriate in their interpretation of

Communication

The ability to write effectively on the themes covered will be assessed in the examination. Discussion in the lecture period will be encouraged but not assessed.

Improving own Learning and Performance

This module requires an additional three hours self-directed work for each one hour taught - this will necessitate that each student develops self-management and time managment skills.

Information Technology

Students will be introduced to the availability, use and evaluation of data and other material derived from on-line sources. Such material may be cited in answers offered on the examination paper.

Personal Development and Career planning

The themes addressed in this module provide an important context through which to consider various future career and life paths.

Problem solving

The themes addressed in the module identify the challenges facing policy and planning and students are required to be aware of the nature of such problems and reflect critically on strategies that have been adpoted to address them.

Research skills

Will be developed and expanded through the range of reading and web-based policy sources examined in support of this module.

Subject Specific Skills

No additional subject-specific skills are developed, existing ones may be practiced in the examination.

Course Delivery

Assessment

Learning Outcomes

Aims

Brief description

Module Skills

Reading List

Notes