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TI 150: Principles of human Geography

Module Code: TI150 1BA Co ordinator: Dr Kieran Hickey Module Title:  Principles of Human Geography  Module Weighting: 5 ECTS credits  Module Co Ordinator: Dr Pat Collins Semester:  Two Teaching Staff: Dr Valerie Ledwith  Prof. Ulf Strohmayer  Dr Pat Collins
Course Outline available .

Course Description

This course seeks to introduce key problems, concepts and contexts within human geography. Its focus is a contemporary one: it strives to illuminate the world of today by exploring and analysing the origin of central issues that make the headlines (or not) in the media and beyond. The course places lectures alongside the information given in the textbook; for examination purposes, both are essential.

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Aims and Objectives of the Module

This introductory course in human geography aims to:

• introduce students to the fundamental concepts and principles of human geography;
• encourage students to gain a critical understanding of the interrelationships between
  society and the environment;
• explore how geographers have changed their ideas on human-environment
  relationships;
• provide an insight and understanding of a range of contemporary issues preoccupying
  geographers at the start of the twenty-first century;
• provide students with opportunities to understand how all aspects of human life - the
  economic, the environmental, the political, the social - are tied up with questions of
  space and place.

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Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course students will be able to 

• outline changing ideas used by geographers in their attempt to understand human-environment relations,
• consider how individuals and societies perceive and behave in their environment and understand the relationships that arise from those perceptions
• explain the dynamics of human population growth and discuss some of the implications of that growth. 
• provide a greater understanding of global inequalities and the multiple factors which affect social justice and development in an era of globalisation 
• learn to engage with and critically evaluate issues of global disparity in both conceptual and empirical terms

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Assessment

This course is assessed by MCQ examination only. Students will answer 40 questions in a two hour exam at the end of Semester 2.

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Course Readings

There is one core textbook for this course:
Cloke P., Chrang P. and Goodwin M (eds) (2005) Introducing Human Geographies, 2nd Edition, Hodder Arnold Publications.

This book is available as an e-book on the library catalogue and you can download relevant chapters as you see fit for free. Just type in the title of the book in the search engine and it will come up as an e-book option

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Lecture outline

Detailed lecture schedule for Semester 2 to be given at the end of Semester 1

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Attendance

PLEASE NOTE THAT ATTENDANCE AT ALL LECTURES IS COMPULSORY AS LACK OF ATTENDANCE IS THE BIGGEST CAUSE OF FAILURE IN FIRST YEAR.

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