Unit name | Geographies of the Bioeconomy |
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Unit code | GEOG30030 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | . Fannin |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
GEOG25110 Philosophy, Social Theory and Geography |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This final-year unit will focus on advanced topics in human geography. It will introduce and review key theoretical and empirical research in political, economic, and cultural geography. The unit will develop students’ ability to draw on relevant conceptual vocabularies in feminist, Marxist, post-structural, and post-colonial thinking in both geography and other social science disciplines, including: gender, race, labour, capital, accumulation, production, reproduction, dispossession, colonialism, nature, and value. Lecture topics will focus in depth on concepts central to theorising contemporary political and economic formations, such as ‘biocapital’, with an emphasis on geographies of transnational or global capital, colonial accumulation, privatisation, technologies of dispossession, enclosure, resistance, representation, and cultural economies of contemporary embodiment.
The unit aims to introduce students to contemporary theoretical and empirical debates in political economic geography. The unit also aims to help students develop the ability to pose purposeful questions within these debates and to cultivate intellectual curiosity about their socio-political, economic, and technological contexts. It draws on research-orientated case studies that critically detail the social processes, structures, and causes underlying capitalist development.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able:
Links between learning outcomes and methods of assessment:
Teaching will consist primarily of a 1-hour lecture, followed by a 1-hour seminar.
Two essays: Research essay (40%) + Final essay (60%)
Research essay (40%) – 1500 words (due at midpoint of teaching block)
Final essay (60%) – 2500 words (due towards the end of the teaching block).
Both essays test all of the ILOs.
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.