Unit information: Study and Field Skills E in 2021/22

Unit name	Study and Field Skills E
Unit code	GEOG20014
Credit points	20
Level of study	I/5
Teaching block(s)	Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director	Dr. Ed Atkins
Open unit status	Not open
Pre-requisites	All core units in Single Honours Geography Year 1
Co-requisites	GEOG20012 Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography
School/department	School of Geographical Sciences
Faculty	Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

This course is about exploring, experiencing and representing urban geographies. Its main focus is in the linking of theory and practice through field work in a major city. It examines a particular sequence of artistic, architectural, philosophical and political movements extending from the C19th to the late C20th including literary, historical and philosophical figures. Pedagogically, the course shows how a particular empirical encounter sources experience, inspires theory and becomes the site of certain practices which then perform the social. In more general terms it will be shown that urban movements, whether artistic, political or social, were and are transformers of modern society today. The course provides material for the basis of day-projects in the field.

The unit aims to:

• Familiarise students with the relationship between theory and practice
• Enable students to gain experience of using theory in relation to empirical insight to construct visions of the world
• Give students an awareness of a particular empirical site that acts as an exemplary marker for many artistic, literary, historical and philosophical currents that underpin modern society in the Western world.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Combine and critically evaluate the appropriate use of novel theoretical constellations in response to specific empirical engagements;
2. Demonstrate an understanding of a series of theoretical and historical issues underpinning the development of modernity as seen through urban sites;
3. Apply a range of empirical field skills.

The following transferable skills are developed in this Unit:

• Written and verbal communication
• Team working and collaboration
• Problem solving
• Lateral and strategic thinking
• Analytical skills
• Planning and implementing research projects
• Project management

Teaching Information

Briefing lectures, fieldwork (residential, overseas).

Assessment Information

Percentage of the unit that is coursework: 100%

Fieldwork report submitted at the end of the field trip (100%).

Resources

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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.