Unit information: Contemporary Debates in Human Geography in 2010/11

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Unit name Contemporary Debates in Human Geography
Unit code GEOGM1402
Credit points 20
Level of study M/7
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Dr. Dixon
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

none

School/department School of Geographical Sciences
Faculty Faculty of Science

Description including Unit Aims

Bristol Human Geography research covers a wide range of themes, practices and problematics, from the highly theoretical and philosophical to the empirically rich and technically sophisticated. Our scholarship is clustered into three research groups - Historical-Cultural, Political Economy and Spatial Modelling - each of which has a long standing reputation for theoretical and methodological innovation. We are also fostering cross-cutting research programmes in fields such as the geograophy of health; geographies of identity, subjectivity and the body; geographies of knowledge; and global change. This course will expose you to contemporary geographical debates, and profile the diversity of our research content, process and practice, through a series of seminars with Human Geography staff.