- Course Code
- GG 1508
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr Alastair Gemmell
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Notes
This course may not be included in a graduating curriculum with GG 1506, GG 1507 or GC 1501.
Overview
Working with the theme of ‘Scotland in Transition’ this course examines how global processes produce and reflect local-scale changes. Related study blocks will address:
- Environmental change and landscape response. Topography, climate, reconstruction of past relationships between humans, plants and animals.
- Landscape and society. Environment – opportunity or risk? Resources and hazards as local manifestations of global drivers. People, land, water, soils – who controls what?
- Globalisation – the economics and politics of urban industrial change. Agents and scales of change: nations and states; local government; multinational corporations and local entrepreneurialism. Regional development and the post-industrial economy.
- New social and cultural spaces. Mobility and difference; poverty and exclusion; imaginative geographies: unequal power relationships; memories, places and nations.
Structure
2 1-hour lectures per week + 6 1-hour workgroups.
Assessment
1st Attempt:
- For students who complete the coursework to a satisfactory standard: coursework, 100%. These students will obtain exemption from the degree exam, and their coursework mark will provide the overall course CAS mark.
- For students who do not obtain exemption from the degree exam: coursework, 50% plus exam, 50%.
Resit: Original coursework carried forward, 50%, plus exam, 50%.
Formative Assessment
The course includes a workgroup exercise on assessment of essays. Students must sit a mock exam in-class. However, with just 12 weeks, 6 workgroups and a degree exam exemption system that requires summative assessment of coursework, it is difficult to arrange stand-alone formative assessment. It makes more sense to consider feedback/feedforward in terms of onwards progression: e.g., students write just one coursework essay which is summatively assessed, but comments provided on this should help students to improve their performance next time: e.g., in the follow-up Level 2 courses.
Feedback
Students receive individual, written feedback on their coursework using standard comments sheets.