GG2013 Geography: Exploring the discipline 1
Academic year
2024 to 2025 Semester 1
Curricular information may be subject to change
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Key module information
SCOTCAT credits
20
SCQF level
SCQF level 8
Planned timetable
Lectures: 9.00am Tues, Wed, Thurs
Module coordinator
Dr T J Young
Module Staff
Dr Tom Cowton; Dr Ale Boussalem; Dr Katherine Roucoux; and Prof Nina Laurie
Module description
Building on the exploration of contemporary global social and environmental crises at GG1000-level, this is the first of two GG2000-level modules that develop students' appreciation of Geography as a discipline. Students will learn to think geographically and to use key conceptual lenses such as time, space, context, scale, and variation, to analyse processes of change in physical and human phenomena. The module will review the evolution of geography and prominent epistemological frames that guide research and understanding in the discipline. Students will explore a range of sub-disciplinary fields each of which will review a specialist area, reinforce broader geographic approaches to understanding the world, and lay the foundation for specialisation at honours. In addition to a lecture program, learning will involve field trips and labs together with opportunities to develop a range of transferable skills useful to both study and careers.
Relationship to other modules
Pre-requisites
BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS GG1001 AND PASS GG1002
Anti-requisites
YOU CANNOT TAKE THIS MODULE IF YOU PASS GG2011 OR TAKE GG2011
Assessment pattern
100% coursework
Re-assessment
100% coursework
Learning and teaching methods and delivery
Weekly contact
3 lectures (x 10 weeks), 1-hour tutorials (x 4 weeks), 2 x fieldtrip (half day), 2 hour laboratory practical (x4 weeks)
Scheduled learning hours
50
Guided independent study hours
150
Intended learning outcomes
- Understand Geography as a discipline and tradition and have an ability to think geographically about social and environmental issues.
- Have both an understanding of a range of specialist sub-disciplinary fields within Geography and an ability to both move between them and connect them.
- Have competence in a variety of study, research and communication skills including literature review, written argument, oral presentation, and field- and lab-work
- Show a developing competence towards continued study of geography at a more advanced, honours Level