Dr Laura Antona CKK 3.16

Dr. Carolin Hulke, CKK 4.03

Dr. Tanya Matthan, CKK 4.16

Professor Claire Mercer, CKK 3.20

Dr. Erica Pani CKK, 4.16

Dr. Aretousa Bloom

This course is compulsory on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development, BSc in Environment and Sustainable Development and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available on the BA in Social Anthropology and BSc in Social Anthropology. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Note: As with all undergraduate courses, unless a course is core on a degree programme, allocation of places is done by School on a first come, first served basis and does not allow the Department to prioritise who is accepted

This course provides students with an introduction to the study of geography. Across two terms, we will examine key foundational concepts in human, economic, and environmental geography. In Autumn Term we will examine the history of geographic thought, space, place, society, mobility, landscape, territory, urbanism, the economy, inequality, and globalisation. In Winter Term we will examine power and the state, development, regionalisation, nature, commodification, risk and vulnerability, environmental justice, more-than-human relations, climate change, and the Anthropocene. Through exposure to a wide range of theories, students will learn to critically interpret a range of case studies from across the globe, and think deeply about social, economic, and environmental problems.

This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures across Autumn Term and Winter Term.

This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Autumn Term and Week 6 of Winter Term

Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the WT and 2 essays in the AT and WT.

Detailed reading-lists related to the different topics within the course will be provided at the start of the course. General useful texts include Clifford, N.J., S.L. Holloway, S.R. Rice and G. Valentine (eds) (2009) Key Concepts in Geography, 2nd Ed, Sage, London; Dicken, P. (2011) Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy 6th Edition  Sage Publications; W.E. Murray, Geographies of globalization, 2006; Pike A., A. Rodriguez-Pose and J. Tomaney (2017) Local and regional development. London: Routledge; N. Castree (2014) Making Sense of Nature

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the spring exam period.