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Introduction to Human Geography

Overview

  • Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4
  • Convenor: Professor Paul Watt
  • Assessment: a 1500-word essay (50%), 1500-word report (30%) and five-minute pre-recorded presentation (20%)

Module description

In this module we introduce you to key themes, concepts, theories and debates in contemporary human geography. We will examine topics drawn from social, economic and urban geography, for example globalisation and public space.

Part of the module focuses on London as a global city and discusses issues such as ethnicity and migration, and housing and homelessness. The section on London includes a field trip to East London.

Indicative syllabus

  • Introduction to human geography
  • People, place and power
  • Colonial, post-colonial and decolonial geographies
  • Gender and feminist geographies
  • Geographies of globalisation
  • Bishopsgate Institute visit: archiving hidden geographies
  • Urban geography and inequality
  • London: a migrant city
  • East London field trip
  • Student presentations