GG4250 Diversity, inequality and place

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

The School will operate a ballot system.

Planned timetable

Thurs 2pm-5pm

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Module coordinator

Prof N Finney

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Module Staff

Prof Nissa Finney

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Module description

In this module we will think critically about diversity and inequality and how they are manifest in place, focusing particularly on local scales. At the end of the course you should be able to see the places around you as a product of complex processes that reflect and reinforce social differences. In studying the making and meaning of place we will consider themes such as international and internal migration, housing structures and gentrification, neighbourhood representations and place belonging. We’ll interrogate how social and spatial sorting (or stratification, or segregation) happens along lines of race/ethnicity, class and age, and who is advantaged and disadvantaged. In this course you’ll work with a variety of types of evidence (data) and be encouraged to appreciate how this can provide deeper and broader interrogations of social phenomena. There will be considerable focus on the UK but also examples from elsewhere, and the inherent themes and theories are applicable globally.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS 'GG2011 AND GG2012' OR 'SD2001 AND SD2002' OR 'GG2013, GG2014 AND SD2100' OR 'SD2005, SD2006 AND SD2100'.

Anti-requisites

YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS MODULE IF YOU PASS GG3273 OR TAKE GG3273

Assessment pattern

100% coursework

Re-assessment

100% coursework

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 1 hour lecture (10 weeks) plus 1 x 2 hour seminar (9 weeks) plus 1 x 2 hour practical/workshops sessions (4 weeks).

Scheduled learning hours

43

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

257

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Critically engage with theories of diversity, inequality and place and identify Geographers’ distinctive contributions to these fields
  • Show knowledge of, and ability to work with, quantitative and qualitative data and methods used to monitor diversity and inequality across places
  • Understand population and social/structural processes that shape diversity and inequality across places
  • Critique political, public and academic discourses on diversity, place and inequalities
  • Construct academic argument and express this in essay form