| Unit name | Geographies of the Bioeconomy |
|---|---|
| Unit code | GEOG30030 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | . Fannin |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None. |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None. |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
None. |
| School/department | School of Geographical Sciences |
| Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This final-year unit focuses on advanced topics in human geography. It will introduce and review key theoretical and empirical research in political, economic, and cultural geography andwill develop students’ ability to draw on relevant conceptual vocabularies in feminist, Marxist, post-structural, and post-colonial thinking in geography and other social science disciplines, including: gender, race, labour, capital, accumulation, production, reproduction, dispossession, colonialism, nature, and value. Lecture topics will focus in depth on concepts central to theorising contemporary political and economic formations, such as ‘biocapital’, with an emphasis on geographies of transnational or global capital, colonial accumulation, privatisation, technologies of dispossession, enclosure, resistance, representation, and cultural economies of contemporary embodiment.
The unit aims to introduce students to contemporary theoretical and empirical debates in political economic geography. The unit also aims to help students develop the ability to pose purposeful questions within these debates and to cultivate intellectual curiosity about their socio-political, economic, and technological contexts. It draws on research-orientated case studies that critically detail the social processes, structures, and causes underlying capitalist development. This unit explores topis in the Political Economies and Mobilities, and Geohumanities themes.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able:
Links between learning outcomes and methods of assessment:
Teaching will consist primarily of a 1-hour lecture, followed by a 1-hour seminar.
Tasks which help you learn and prepare you for summative tasks (formative):
Concept maps will be introduced and developed over the course of the term to visualise the ideas introduced in readings, lectures and discussions.
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
Final essay (100%). The essay tests all of the ILOs.
When assessment does not go to plan
Students will be offered an alternative essay-based assessment for completion in the summer reassessment period.
If this unit has a Resource List, you will normally find a link to it in the Blackboard area for the unit. Sometimes there will be a separate link for each weekly topic.
If you are unable to access a list through Blackboard, you can also find it via the Resource Lists homepage. Search for the list by the unit name or code (e.g. GEOG30030).
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 University Workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The assessment methods listed in this unit specification are designed to enable students to demonstrate the named learning outcomes (LOs). Where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, schools will make reasonable adjustments to support a student to demonstrate the LO by an alternative method or with additional resources.
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. For appropriate assessments, if you have self-certificated your absence, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (for assessments at the end of TB1 and TB2 this is usually in the next re-assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any exceptional circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
