This course is compulsory on the BA in Geography and BSc in Economic History and Geography. This course is available on the BSc in Environment and Development. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is compulsory on the BA in Geography and BSc in Economic History and Geography. This course is available on the BSc in Environment and Development. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
In the Department of Geography and Environment, teaching will be delivered through a combination of classes/seminars, pre-recorded lectures, live online lectures, in-person lectures and other supplementary interactive live activities. ? This course is delivered through a combination of lectures and classes across the Michaelmas Term and Lent Term. ? Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6 of Michaelmas Term and Week 6 of Lent Term.
Students will be given the opportunity to complete two formative assignments during the course of the year: one in MT that draws on qualitative research methods and one in LT draws on quantitative research methods. Information on the formative assignments will be provided in the course outline.
Methods in human geography: a guide for students doing a research project (Flowerdew and?Martin, 2005);?Statistics: a tool for social research (Healey, 2012);?Statistics in geography and environmental science (Harris and?Jarvis, 2011);?Geography and geographers: Anglo-American geography since 1945 (Johnston, 1997);?International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Kitchin and?Thrift, 2009);?Key methods in geography (Clifford, French, and Valentine, 2010);?Qualitative research methods in human geography (Hay, 2010).
Project (50%, 3000 words) in the LT. Project (50%, 3500 words) in the ST. The first project (3000 words) will be due toward the end of Lent Term. The second project (3500 words) will be due at the start of Summer Term.