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| GEG-30016 |
Economic Development and Environmental Transformation |
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150 |
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This module aims to provide students with an understanding of economic development and environmental transformation through an exploration of current debates in Human Geography. It introduces students to some of the key issues within the sub-discipline of development geography as well as allied debates in political and economic geography. The module aims to familiarize students with geographical understandings of economic and environmental history. It introduces the sectoral, area-based, and conceptual approaches that characterize much development geography research through case-studies of global economic and environmental concerns. Assessing case-study material drawn from across the developing world will develop the skills necessary for students to evaluate and critique explanations of the diversity of global development outcomes.
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Systematic understanding, based on detailed knowledge of case studies, of conceptual approaches to economic development and environmental transformation.
Ability to identify and critically evaluate different theories of economic development and environmental transformation, especially in relation to the ways these theories explain spatial inequalities among and within nation states and global regions; ability to describe and critique the empirical basis on which these differing theories were developed.
Ability to select and interrogate the relevant literature concerning current detabes in development geography; to prepare and present in written form a reasoned argument evaluating research methodologies and differing and contested interpretations of development outcomes, and to place these interpretations in the context of wider and on-going debates in Human Geography and the social sciences.
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9 x 1 hours lectures
9 x 1 hours seminars
35 hours essay preparation
22 hours seminar preparation
40 hours independent study
35 hours exam preparation
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| 001: Essay weighted 50% |
2000 words
2000 words, title to be selected from a set list
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| 002: 2 Hour Unseen Exam weighted 50% |
2 hours 2 questions from 6
2 hour exam in which students will answer 2 questions from a list of 6
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Version: (1.04S) Created: 04/Jun/2010
This document is the definitive current source of information about this module and supersedes any other information. |