AIG103 - People and Place: An Introduction to Human Geography

Unit details

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Year:

2020 unit information

Important Update:

Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester.

Last updated: 2 June 2020

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Louise Johnson
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 1-hour class per week, 1 x 2-hour seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities equivalent to 1-hour per week and one full-day excursion (7-hours per trimester)

In-person attendance requirements:

Excursion: One full day in the field (7-hours per trimester)

Content

This unit will introduce students to the many components of the human-environment relation explored by Human Geographers. Beginning with the notion of a “natural disaster”, it will focus on those economic, social and cultural dimensions which shape the perception and management of a disaster. From this global starting point, the unit will consider the emergence of industrial and urban societies, the dissemination of such economic and spatial systems to create patterns of uneven development and contemporary debates around national and local inequality, human mobility and sustainability. Study will occur through both abstract and field-based studies. Students will emerge with an array of skills (cartographic, statistical, observational), geographical knowledge and engage in contemporary debates around socio-spatial inequality, the human-nature-animal divide and the future of human settlements.

 

These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit

At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes)

ULO1

Articulate what a Geographical perspective means and how it has changed over the last 100 years

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Demonstrate a solid understanding of the patterns and processes that have shaped the character of human settlements over the last 200 years

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO3

Students will employ a wide range of Geographical skills - of spatial observation, cartography, data collection and analysis - as tools of social analysis and presentation

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO4

Students will be able to research and present spatial information to solve contemporary human geography problems

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO6: Self-management

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO5

Learn to work in teams to assess a field site and conceptualise it in terms of key geographical terms and techniques

GLO6: Self-management

GLO7 Teamwork

GLO8: Global citizenship

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Trimester 1:
Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week

Assessment 1 (Individual) – 2 x Seminar Exercises

2 x 600 words 2 x 15% Week 3 and 5

Assessment 2 (Group) – Group Assignment

1200 words 30% Week 9
Assessment 3 (Individual) – Report 1600 words 40% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIG103 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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