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Human Geography |
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| GEG-10013 | Human Geographies | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The module seeks to provide students with an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of approaches and content of Human Geography, ranging from human's impact on the environment to the challenges faced by contemporary societies in the forms of class, race, gender, age and sexuality. It seeks to understand the range of Human Geographical processes that have shaped and are shaping the human environment about us from agricultural and rural developments through the processes of modernization, urbanization and population growth to the problems presented by regionalism, nationalism, and globalization. It seeks to demonstrate the importance of changing and differing readings and interpretations of the human environment from large-scale empirical analyses of major human activities to small-scale qualitative appreciations of the individual's interaction with space. | ||||||
| Semester 1-2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-10035 | Geographical Skills | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module introduces students to a core set of essential geographical techniques and basic study skills and provides hands-on opportunity for practical engagement with such skills in both laboratory and field-based environments. As such, the module is intended to equip participants with the appropriate skills and expertise to enable real world problems to be approached with confidence and practical competence. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-10041 | People and the Environment | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module enables students to develop an understanding and appreciation of a range of environmental issues and different approaches to tackling these issues (from the natural and social science persepctives) , in particular addressing questions of how we use the environment as a resource, the impacts we have on the environment, environmental hazards, and how we can try and manage our impact on the environment. | ||||||
| GEG-10012 | Practising Human Geography | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The module introduces students to a range of approaches, skills and techniques that are relevant to the practice of Human Geography. It will allow students to develop an awareness of the process of human geography research practice, focusing particularly upon the relation between concepts and theories, research methodology and the articulation of arguments and debates within research presentation. Students will also have the opportunity to reflect on how they can articulate geographical skills and develop their subject specific and generic skills. | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-20050 | Dynamic Geographies (15 Credits) | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module builds upon the core concepts introduced within the first year programme and provides students with a comprehensive introduction to a range of specialist geographical disciplines and issues. Through engagement with specialist literature, students are encouraged to explore the dynamic nature of the subject as expressed through its varied research themes, recent developments and modern-day debates. | ||||||
| GEG-20010 | Practical Human Geography | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module has been designed to build upon the basic practical skills established in year 1 and will play an important role in the preparation of the dissertation which all students submit as part of their degree assessment. | ||||||
| GEG-20011 | Human Geography - Study Abroad I | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20012 | Human Geography - Study Abroad II | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| GEG-20009 | Geographical Research Training | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module is a course in research methods culminating in a residential overseas fieldcourse. Locations in recent years have included Malta, Spain and Kenya. The module develops students&© research abilities and enables them to acquire important transferable skills e.g. data gathering, data processing, data analysis and representation and group work. | ||||||
| GEG-20013 | Human Geography - Study Abroad III | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20014 | Human Geography - Study Abroad IV | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20015 | Space and Society | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module is concerned with the interrelationship between space, culture and society. Drawing together theoretical perspectives and empirical case-study examples, the module explores how societal relationships and formations shape spaces and places, whilst they are also shaped by them. Attention will be given to the built environment in terms of both public and private spheres. | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| + | ESC-30017 | Applied Environmental GIS | O | M | 7.5 | 15 |
| Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are of increasing importance to our understanding and management of environmental problems. This module introduces fundamental GIS concepts and capabilities and examines a variety of environmental applications ranging from natural resources management to the disposal of toxic waste. The applied nature of the course is reinforced by appropriate training in the use of industry-standard GIS software and an opportunity is presented for students to apply their new skills to addressing a specific environmental case study. | ||||||
| + | ESC-30017 | Applied Environmental GIS | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 |
| Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are of increasing importance to our understanding and management of environmental problems. This module introduces fundamental GIS concepts and capabilities and examines a variety of environmental applications ranging from natural resources management to the disposal of toxic waste. The applied nature of the course is reinforced by appropriate training in the use of industry-standard GIS software and an opportunity is presented for students to apply their new skills to addressing a specific environmental case study. | ||||||
| GEG-30015 | Postcolonialism in South Asia | O | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the present-day relevance of postcolonial concepts and workings in Human Geography. It seeks to introduce students to some of the key issues within postcolonial studies and provide them with an assessment of those issues in a geographical context. It will enable students to generate a geographical framework through which they can deconstruct the power structures of the past and present, deconstructing not only institutional structures, but mental ones as well, and to understand their spatial implications and expressions for landscapes and societies. South Asia will be used as the case study for the module, providing illustrations of the various types and levels of colonial workings, impacts, and geographical outcomes. | ||||||
| GEG-30015 | Postcolonialism in South Asia | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the present-day relevance of postcolonial concepts and workings in Human Geography. It seeks to introduce students to some of the key issues within postcolonial studies and provide them with an assessment of those issues in a geographical context. It will enable students to generate a geographical framework through which they can deconstruct the power structures of the past and present, deconstructing not only institutional structures, but mental ones as well, and to understand their spatial implications and expressions for landscapes and societies. South Asia will be used as the case study for the module, providing illustrations of the various types and levels of colonial workings, impacts, and geographical outcomes. | ||||||
| GEG-30018 | Cultural Geographies of the Everyday | O | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module seeks to provide students with an understanding of the geographies present in a range of everyday cultural practices, artefacts, and representations. Through a combination of lectures and seminar-based discussions students will be introduced to some key debates and ideas prominent in contemporary research in cultural geography and be given an opportunity to assess those debates/ideas in relation to a variety of everyday contexts through group discussion. Such everyday contexts will include: everyday practices of mobility (such as cycling, walking, driving); how individuals perform their identities in public life; the importance of emotions and feelings to the experience of everyday spaces; how various cultural landscapes are represented and experienced; the geographies present in various 'mediascapes' (such as film, television, video games); how certain sub-cultural activities (such as parkour, street performing) can be seen as 'subverting' social-spatial norms; and the role memory and commemoration play in our relationships with different places. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| # | GEG-30006 | Geography Double Dissertation - ISP | O | C | 15 | 30 |
| The geography dissertation is a research project on a geographical topic of the student&©s choice. It may be based on either primary data or secondary sources, and should demonstrate competence in dealing with geographical data or source material appropriate to the topic. The dissertation provides an opportunity for students to put into practice a wide range of skills and knowledge learned during their degree programme. Students are given a free choice of topic, and are allocated to an adviser with whom to discuss research strategy, analysis of the results and presentation of the work. The double dissertation is a substantial project, typically 8-11,000 words long, with an 11,000 word limit. | ||||||
| GEG-30008 | Geography (Single) Dissertation - ISP | O | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The geography dissertation is a research project on a geographical topic of the student&©s choice. It may be based on either primary data or secondary sources, and should demonstrate competence in dealing with geographical data or source material appropriate to the topic. The dissertation provides an opportunity for students to put into practice a wide range of skills and knowledge learned during their degree programme. Students are given a free choice of topic, and are allocated to an adviser with whom to discuss research strategy, analysis of the results and presentation of the work. The single dissertation is a substantial project, typically 5-6,000 words long, with a 6,000 word limit. | ||||||
| GEG-30014 | Inspirational Landscapes | O | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The idea of landscape is at the heart of Geography. This module explores landscape from a variety of different perspectives to see how core concepts in Geography tie together in the context of this overarching theme. Marcel Proust wrote that the true voyage of discovery involves not seeing new lands but seeing through new eyes and seeing through the eyes of different people. In this module we look at landscape both through geographers&© eyes and through the eyes of artists, poets, explorers, novelists, and composers. The assessment is project-based (no exam), and students can submit work either as a conventional written report, in another medium such as video, or in a multimedia format. Students are free to tie the project directly to their own interests in areas such as music, film or literature or to adopt a more traditional geomorphological, historical, cultural or applied approach to landscape. The module encourages students to explore the boundaries of the discipline of Geography, both internal (for example between scientific and aesthetic geographical writing and between physical and human geography) and external (for example where geography meets the creative arts). | ||||||
| GEG-30014 | Inspirational Landscapes | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The idea of landscape is at the heart of Geography. This module explores landscape from a variety of different perspectives to see how core concepts in Geography tie together in the context of this overarching theme. Marcel Proust wrote that the true voyage of discovery involves not seeing new lands but seeing through new eyes and seeing through the eyes of different people. In this module we look at landscape both through geographers&© eyes and through the eyes of artists, poets, explorers, novelists, and composers. The assessment is project-based (no exam), and students can submit work either as a conventional written report, in another medium such as video, or in a multimedia format. Students are free to tie the project directly to their own interests in areas such as music, film or literature or to adopt a more traditional geomorphological, historical, cultural or applied approach to landscape. The module encourages students to explore the boundaries of the discipline of Geography, both internal (for example between scientific and aesthetic geographical writing and between physical and human geography) and external (for example where geography meets the creative arts). | ||||||
| GEG-30016 | Economic Development and Environmental Transformation | O | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| Are economic development and environmental concerns always opposed? Why doesn't environmental conservation seem to work? And what areas should be conservation priorities to sustain global ecosystems? What does international development assistance do for the people who depend most directly on their local environments for their livelihoods? This module helps students find their own answers to some of these pressing questions by introducing them to development geography. Students explore key ideas from this subdiscipline including political ecology - the study of environments as products of social action - and performative economy - the idea of 'economy' as an abstract realm we bring into being by describing it. Their own examinations of in-depth case studies of economy and ecology enable students to come to original conclusions about the probity and feasibility of different pathways towards - and definitions of - 'development.' | ||||||
| GEG-30016 | Economic Development and Environmental Transformation | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| Are economic development and environmental concerns always opposed? Why doesn't environmental conservation seem to work? And what areas should be conservation priorities to sustain global ecosystems? What does international development assistance do for the people who depend most directly on their local environments for their livelihoods? This module helps students find their own answers to some of these pressing questions by introducing them to development geography. Students explore key ideas from this subdiscipline including political ecology - the study of environments as products of social action - and performative economy - the idea of 'economy' as an abstract realm we bring into being by describing it. Their own examinations of in-depth case studies of economy and ecology enable students to come to original conclusions about the probity and feasibility of different pathways towards - and definitions of - 'development.' | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| GEG-10013 | Human Geographies | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The module seeks to provide students with an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of approaches and content of Human Geography, ranging from human's impact on the environment to the challenges faced by contemporary societies in the forms of class, race, gender, age and sexuality. It seeks to understand the range of Human Geographical processes that have shaped and are shaping the human environment about us from agricultural and rural developments through the processes of modernization, urbanization and population growth to the problems presented by regionalism, nationalism, and globalization. It seeks to demonstrate the importance of changing and differing readings and interpretations of the human environment from large-scale empirical analyses of major human activities to small-scale qualitative appreciations of the individual's interaction with space. | ||||||
| Semester 1-2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-10035 | Geographical Skills | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module introduces students to a core set of essential geographical techniques and basic study skills and provides hands-on opportunity for practical engagement with such skills in both laboratory and field-based environments. As such, the module is intended to equip participants with the appropriate skills and expertise to enable real world problems to be approached with confidence and practical competence. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-10041 | People and the Environment | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module enables students to develop an understanding and appreciation of a range of environmental issues and different approaches to tackling these issues (from the natural and social science persepctives) , in particular addressing questions of how we use the environment as a resource, the impacts we have on the environment, environmental hazards, and how we can try and manage our impact on the environment. | ||||||
| GEG-10012 | Practising Human Geography | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The module introduces students to a range of approaches, skills and techniques that are relevant to the practice of Human Geography. It will allow students to develop an awareness of the process of human geography research practice, focusing particularly upon the relation between concepts and theories, research methodology and the articulation of arguments and debates within research presentation. Students will also have the opportunity to reflect on how they can articulate geographical skills and develop their subject specific and generic skills. | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-20050 | Dynamic Geographies (15 Credits) | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module builds upon the core concepts introduced within the first year programme and provides students with a comprehensive introduction to a range of specialist geographical disciplines and issues. Through engagement with specialist literature, students are encouraged to explore the dynamic nature of the subject as expressed through its varied research themes, recent developments and modern-day debates. | ||||||
| GEG-20010 | Practical Human Geography | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module has been designed to build upon the basic practical skills established in year 1 and will play an important role in the preparation of the dissertation which all students submit as part of their degree assessment. | ||||||
| GEG-20011 | Human Geography - Study Abroad I | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20012 | Human Geography - Study Abroad II | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| GEG-20009 | Geographical Research Training | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module is a course in research methods culminating in a residential overseas fieldcourse. Locations in recent years have included Malta, Spain and Kenya. The module develops students&© research abilities and enables them to acquire important transferable skills e.g. data gathering, data processing, data analysis and representation and group work. | ||||||
| GEG-20013 | Human Geography - Study Abroad III | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20014 | Human Geography - Study Abroad IV | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20015 | Space and Society | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module is concerned with the interrelationship between space, culture and society. Drawing together theoretical perspectives and empirical case-study examples, the module explores how societal relationships and formations shape spaces and places, whilst they are also shaped by them. Attention will be given to the built environment in terms of both public and private spheres. | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| + | ESC-30017 | Applied Environmental GIS | O | M | 7.5 | 15 |
| Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are of increasing importance to our understanding and management of environmental problems. This module introduces fundamental GIS concepts and capabilities and examines a variety of environmental applications ranging from natural resources management to the disposal of toxic waste. The applied nature of the course is reinforced by appropriate training in the use of industry-standard GIS software and an opportunity is presented for students to apply their new skills to addressing a specific environmental case study. | ||||||
| + | ESC-30017 | Applied Environmental GIS | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 |
| Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are of increasing importance to our understanding and management of environmental problems. This module introduces fundamental GIS concepts and capabilities and examines a variety of environmental applications ranging from natural resources management to the disposal of toxic waste. The applied nature of the course is reinforced by appropriate training in the use of industry-standard GIS software and an opportunity is presented for students to apply their new skills to addressing a specific environmental case study. | ||||||
| GEG-30015 | Postcolonialism in South Asia | O | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the present-day relevance of postcolonial concepts and workings in Human Geography. It seeks to introduce students to some of the key issues within postcolonial studies and provide them with an assessment of those issues in a geographical context. It will enable students to generate a geographical framework through which they can deconstruct the power structures of the past and present, deconstructing not only institutional structures, but mental ones as well, and to understand their spatial implications and expressions for landscapes and societies. South Asia will be used as the case study for the module, providing illustrations of the various types and levels of colonial workings, impacts, and geographical outcomes. | ||||||
| GEG-30015 | Postcolonialism in South Asia | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the present-day relevance of postcolonial concepts and workings in Human Geography. It seeks to introduce students to some of the key issues within postcolonial studies and provide them with an assessment of those issues in a geographical context. It will enable students to generate a geographical framework through which they can deconstruct the power structures of the past and present, deconstructing not only institutional structures, but mental ones as well, and to understand their spatial implications and expressions for landscapes and societies. South Asia will be used as the case study for the module, providing illustrations of the various types and levels of colonial workings, impacts, and geographical outcomes. | ||||||
| GEG-30018 | Cultural Geographies of the Everyday | O | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module seeks to provide students with an understanding of the geographies present in a range of everyday cultural practices, artefacts, and representations. Through a combination of lectures and seminar-based discussions students will be introduced to some key debates and ideas prominent in contemporary research in cultural geography and be given an opportunity to assess those debates/ideas in relation to a variety of everyday contexts through group discussion. Such everyday contexts will include: everyday practices of mobility (such as cycling, walking, driving); how individuals perform their identities in public life; the importance of emotions and feelings to the experience of everyday spaces; how various cultural landscapes are represented and experienced; the geographies present in various 'mediascapes' (such as film, television, video games); how certain sub-cultural activities (such as parkour, street performing) can be seen as 'subverting' social-spatial norms; and the role memory and commemoration play in our relationships with different places. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| # | GEG-30006 | Geography Double Dissertation - ISP | C | C | 15 | 30 |
| The geography dissertation is a research project on a geographical topic of the student&©s choice. It may be based on either primary data or secondary sources, and should demonstrate competence in dealing with geographical data or source material appropriate to the topic. The dissertation provides an opportunity for students to put into practice a wide range of skills and knowledge learned during their degree programme. Students are given a free choice of topic, and are allocated to an adviser with whom to discuss research strategy, analysis of the results and presentation of the work. The double dissertation is a substantial project, typically 8-11,000 words long, with an 11,000 word limit. | ||||||
| GEG-30014 | Inspirational Landscapes | O | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The idea of landscape is at the heart of Geography. This module explores landscape from a variety of different perspectives to see how core concepts in Geography tie together in the context of this overarching theme. Marcel Proust wrote that the true voyage of discovery involves not seeing new lands but seeing through new eyes and seeing through the eyes of different people. In this module we look at landscape both through geographers&© eyes and through the eyes of artists, poets, explorers, novelists, and composers. The assessment is project-based (no exam), and students can submit work either as a conventional written report, in another medium such as video, or in a multimedia format. Students are free to tie the project directly to their own interests in areas such as music, film or literature or to adopt a more traditional geomorphological, historical, cultural or applied approach to landscape. The module encourages students to explore the boundaries of the discipline of Geography, both internal (for example between scientific and aesthetic geographical writing and between physical and human geography) and external (for example where geography meets the creative arts). | ||||||
| GEG-30014 | Inspirational Landscapes | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The idea of landscape is at the heart of Geography. This module explores landscape from a variety of different perspectives to see how core concepts in Geography tie together in the context of this overarching theme. Marcel Proust wrote that the true voyage of discovery involves not seeing new lands but seeing through new eyes and seeing through the eyes of different people. In this module we look at landscape both through geographers&© eyes and through the eyes of artists, poets, explorers, novelists, and composers. The assessment is project-based (no exam), and students can submit work either as a conventional written report, in another medium such as video, or in a multimedia format. Students are free to tie the project directly to their own interests in areas such as music, film or literature or to adopt a more traditional geomorphological, historical, cultural or applied approach to landscape. The module encourages students to explore the boundaries of the discipline of Geography, both internal (for example between scientific and aesthetic geographical writing and between physical and human geography) and external (for example where geography meets the creative arts). | ||||||
| GEG-30016 | Economic Development and Environmental Transformation | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| Are economic development and environmental concerns always opposed? Why doesn't environmental conservation seem to work? And what areas should be conservation priorities to sustain global ecosystems? What does international development assistance do for the people who depend most directly on their local environments for their livelihoods? This module helps students find their own answers to some of these pressing questions by introducing them to development geography. Students explore key ideas from this subdiscipline including political ecology - the study of environments as products of social action - and performative economy - the idea of 'economy' as an abstract realm we bring into being by describing it. Their own examinations of in-depth case studies of economy and ecology enable students to come to original conclusions about the probity and feasibility of different pathways towards - and definitions of - 'development.' | ||||||
| GEG-30016 | Economic Development and Environmental Transformation | O | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| Are economic development and environmental concerns always opposed? Why doesn't environmental conservation seem to work? And what areas should be conservation priorities to sustain global ecosystems? What does international development assistance do for the people who depend most directly on their local environments for their livelihoods? This module helps students find their own answers to some of these pressing questions by introducing them to development geography. Students explore key ideas from this subdiscipline including political ecology - the study of environments as products of social action - and performative economy - the idea of 'economy' as an abstract realm we bring into being by describing it. Their own examinations of in-depth case studies of economy and ecology enable students to come to original conclusions about the probity and feasibility of different pathways towards - and definitions of - 'development.' | ||||||
| SOC-30027 | Space and the City | EA | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| $ùTo be tired of the city is to be tired of life&© The city is exciting, alluring, dangerous and filled with possibilities and opportunities. It offers hustle and bustle, speed and distraction, a melting pot of sights, sounds, smells, and experiences in a cosmopolitan mix of multi-culturalism. It is simplistic to say that all activities and interactions take place in space. But as the city is at the centre of the modern urban world more and more of what we take for granted takes place in towns and cities. They are the primary location for work, production, consumption, education, learning, cultural and transport institutions and leisure and pleasure. However, the city is more than the sum of its parts and it is more than merely the individual&©s experience of it. This course will give you knowledge and understanding of the city as a socially constructed space in which the physical landscape that we see, use and misuse is not an accidental or coincidental coming-together of things and people. The city is a human produced space in which combinations of factors over time have produced a variety of urban spaces that increasingly dominate our existence and our experience. However, everyone&©s experience and opportunity of the city is not the same. There are winners and losers and we can readily identify areas and people in which relative success and failure is written into the landscape of the city. This course will give you new tools to develop new ways of thinking about the world - a socio-spatial imagination - to explore and understand how cities have developed in the way they have, what role planning and urban design have played, how and why the production, regulation and organisation, the policing and surveillance of urban space affects how and why different people settle and live in different areas, what limits there are to physical movement and social mobility. In short, by thinking more critically about space, cities will never seem the same again. Information on our MA in Urban Futures and Sustainable Communities is available at http://www.keele.ac.uk/urban-futures/ | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| GEG-10013 | Human Geographies | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The module seeks to provide students with an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of approaches and content of Human Geography, ranging from human's impact on the environment to the challenges faced by contemporary societies in the forms of class, race, gender, age and sexuality. It seeks to understand the range of Human Geographical processes that have shaped and are shaping the human environment about us from agricultural and rural developments through the processes of modernization, urbanization and population growth to the problems presented by regionalism, nationalism, and globalization. It seeks to demonstrate the importance of changing and differing readings and interpretations of the human environment from large-scale empirical analyses of major human activities to small-scale qualitative appreciations of the individual's interaction with space. | ||||||
| Semester 1-2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-10035 | Geographical Skills | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module introduces students to a core set of essential geographical techniques and basic study skills and provides hands-on opportunity for practical engagement with such skills in both laboratory and field-based environments. As such, the module is intended to equip participants with the appropriate skills and expertise to enable real world problems to be approached with confidence and practical competence. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-10041 | People and the Environment | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module enables students to develop an understanding and appreciation of a range of environmental issues and different approaches to tackling these issues (from the natural and social science persepctives) , in particular addressing questions of how we use the environment as a resource, the impacts we have on the environment, environmental hazards, and how we can try and manage our impact on the environment. | ||||||
| GEG-10012 | Practising Human Geography | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The module introduces students to a range of approaches, skills and techniques that are relevant to the practice of Human Geography. It will allow students to develop an awareness of the process of human geography research practice, focusing particularly upon the relation between concepts and theories, research methodology and the articulation of arguments and debates within research presentation. Students will also have the opportunity to reflect on how they can articulate geographical skills and develop their subject specific and generic skills. | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| ESC-20050 | Dynamic Geographies (15 Credits) | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module builds upon the core concepts introduced within the first year programme and provides students with a comprehensive introduction to a range of specialist geographical disciplines and issues. Through engagement with specialist literature, students are encouraged to explore the dynamic nature of the subject as expressed through its varied research themes, recent developments and modern-day debates. | ||||||
| GEG-20010 | Practical Human Geography | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module has been designed to build upon the basic practical skills established in year 1 and will play an important role in the preparation of the dissertation which all students submit as part of their degree assessment. | ||||||
| GEG-20011 | Human Geography - Study Abroad I | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20012 | Human Geography - Study Abroad II | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| GEG-20009 | Geographical Research Training | C | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module is a course in research methods culminating in a residential overseas fieldcourse. Locations in recent years have included Malta, Spain and Kenya. The module develops students&© research abilities and enables them to acquire important transferable skills e.g. data gathering, data processing, data analysis and representation and group work. | ||||||
| GEG-20013 | Human Geography - Study Abroad III | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20014 | Human Geography - Study Abroad IV | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This is a module that is automatically allocated to the records our Keele level II students who are going to Study Abroad at a partner University for a semester of their second year and cannot be selected by any other level II students. | ||||||
| GEG-20015 | Space and Society | C | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module is concerned with the interrelationship between space, culture and society. Drawing together theoretical perspectives and empirical case-study examples, the module explores how societal relationships and formations shape spaces and places, whilst they are also shaped by them. Attention will be given to the built environment in terms of both public and private spheres. | ||||||
| Semester 1 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| + | ESC-30017 | Applied Environmental GIS | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 |
| Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are of increasing importance to our understanding and management of environmental problems. This module introduces fundamental GIS concepts and capabilities and examines a variety of environmental applications ranging from natural resources management to the disposal of toxic waste. The applied nature of the course is reinforced by appropriate training in the use of industry-standard GIS software and an opportunity is presented for students to apply their new skills to addressing a specific environmental case study. | ||||||
| GEG-30015 | Postcolonialism in South Asia | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the present-day relevance of postcolonial concepts and workings in Human Geography. It seeks to introduce students to some of the key issues within postcolonial studies and provide them with an assessment of those issues in a geographical context. It will enable students to generate a geographical framework through which they can deconstruct the power structures of the past and present, deconstructing not only institutional structures, but mental ones as well, and to understand their spatial implications and expressions for landscapes and societies. South Asia will be used as the case study for the module, providing illustrations of the various types and levels of colonial workings, impacts, and geographical outcomes. | ||||||
| Semester 2 | C/O | TYP | ECTS | CATS | ||
| GEG-30014 | Inspirational Landscapes | EP | C | 7.5 | 15 | |
| The idea of landscape is at the heart of Geography. This module explores landscape from a variety of different perspectives to see how core concepts in Geography tie together in the context of this overarching theme. Marcel Proust wrote that the true voyage of discovery involves not seeing new lands but seeing through new eyes and seeing through the eyes of different people. In this module we look at landscape both through geographers&© eyes and through the eyes of artists, poets, explorers, novelists, and composers. The assessment is project-based (no exam), and students can submit work either as a conventional written report, in another medium such as video, or in a multimedia format. Students are free to tie the project directly to their own interests in areas such as music, film or literature or to adopt a more traditional geomorphological, historical, cultural or applied approach to landscape. The module encourages students to explore the boundaries of the discipline of Geography, both internal (for example between scientific and aesthetic geographical writing and between physical and human geography) and external (for example where geography meets the creative arts). | ||||||
| GEG-30016 | Economic Development and Environmental Transformation | EP | M | 7.5 | 15 | |
| Are economic development and environmental concerns always opposed? Why doesn't environmental conservation seem to work? And what areas should be conservation priorities to sustain global ecosystems? What does international development assistance do for the people who depend most directly on their local environments for their livelihoods? This module helps students find their own answers to some of these pressing questions by introducing them to development geography. Students explore key ideas from this subdiscipline including political ecology - the study of environments as products of social action - and performative economy - the idea of 'economy' as an abstract realm we bring into being by describing it. Their own examinations of in-depth case studies of economy and ecology enable students to come to original conclusions about the probity and feasibility of different pathways towards - and definitions of - 'development.' | ||||||