Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lecturer
Sara Fuller
Contact via sara.fuller@mq.edu.au
Unit Convenor
Jessica McLean
Contact via jessica.mclean@mq.edu.au
Tutor
Ben Christensen
Contact via ben.christensen@mq.edu.au
Tutor
Fernando Hincapie
Contact via fernando.hincapie@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This is an introductory unit that explores local impacts of global change from three perspectives, the socio-cultural, the political and the economic. It seeks reasons for differences between places and groups of people in the impacts of globalisation. Global-local interactions are examined with specific reference to: population change and migration; urbanisation and the emergence of 'global' cities; local cultural identity in the context of global change; development and inequality; changing geopolitics of the post-Cold War era; and the implications of global economic change with special reference to the Asia–Pacific region.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Online participation | 10% | weekly |
Proposal for Major Essay | 15% | 28th April |
Major Essay | 35% | 23rd May |
Exam | 40% | 16th June - 4th July |
Due: weekly
Weighting: 10%
You must complete 4 skills tutorials and 4 topic tutorials by their due dates (Sundays 12pm of the week assigned). You will be given a participation score based on your a)completion of tasks and b)interaction with other students.
Due: 28th April
Weighting: 15%
Write a 750 word proposal outlining the argument you will make in your major essay (refer to major essay instructions now to develop this). Your proposal should take the following form:
Bullet points are acceptable in the essay plan section. 750 word count means within 10% of 750 words, so either 75 words under or above this word count is acceptable. The references at the end of the proposal are NOT included in this word count.
Essay proposals will be submitted electronically through iLearn and graded by your tutor.
Feedback will be available online via your Turnitin submission.
Due: 23rd May
Weighting: 35%
‘The emergence of globalisation…seems as if it might inevitably impose a sense of placelessness and dislocation, a loss of territorial identity, and an erosion of the distinctive sense of place associated with certain localities. Yet the common experiences associated with globalization are still modified by local geographies.’ (Knox and Marston, 2014:73).
Critically analyse this quote from your textbook, with reference to ONLY ONE of the following forces of global change:
AND ONLY ONE of the following responses
Essay writing requirements:
In your essay, it is essential to draw on specific examples from your research, reading, lectures and tutorials.
LATE ASSIGNMENTS will be penalised by 1 mark per day (1% of your total unit grade). This means that an assignment worth 10% coming in 4 days late will therefore have 4 marks out of the grade deducted. So if it is graded as P+ (6.5/10) it would be reduced to F (2.5/10).
Extensions must be requested and gratned prior to the due date.
Feedback will be available via your Turnitin submission.
Due: 16th June - 4th July
Weighting: 40%
Exams are administered through the examinations office. You will have to sit the exam at Macquarie University or an approved centre. Timetables will be available online nearer to the exam period. You MUST be available to sit an exam at any time within the exam week.
Unit offered:
Session 1, 2014. Internal and External modes.
Lectures:
Lectures are held at:
These are normally available on echo360 within several hours of the lecture.
External students must complete four skill tutorials and four content tutorials at a minimum. Each tutorial has a maximum participation mark of 1%, therefore you should aim to do ten tutorials in total to achieve the maximum grades in this assessment.
Tutorials should be completed by the Tuesday of the week following that they are assigned. After this time, no participation grades will be assigned for that tutorial.
Knox, P. and Marston, S. A. (2014). Human Geography: Places and regions in global context (6th Edition, Pearson International Edition). Prentice Hall Pearson Education International, New Jersey.
This textbook comes with access to MasteringGeography, an essential tool for successful learning in ENVG111 for external students. If you buy a secondhand text, you can buy access to MasteringGeography for approximately AUD 30 from www.pearson.com.au (search for Knox).
Other readings will be assigned during the semester, which may be accessed by iLearn and eReserve.
Hartley, P. and Dawsom, M. (2010) Success in Groupwork, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
Hay, I. (2006). Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences. Oxford University Press (3rd Edition), Melbourne
All enrolled students have access to the unit website at https//ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/MQ/. Access to the website is essential to complete ENVG111. External students complete the entire unit online.
The webpage for this unit can be found at iLearn, the Macquarie University online learning system at https://ilearn.mq.edu.au. iLearn has both a discussion board and internal email system. The website will provide you with access to lectures (as MP3 files and powerpoint presentations for download) through the University's echo360 lecture recording facility, as well as to follow-up discussion, links, reading supplied by teachers of ENVG111, and forum discussions.
Late Assignments
Please note that the penalty for late submission of assignments is 1 mark per day (i.e. 1% of your total unit grade) calculated from 5pm on the due date listed. A weekend will be counted as two days in calculating the late penalty imposed.
An assignment worth 10% coming in 4 days late will therefore have 4 marks of the grade deducted. This means if it was graded as a P+ (6.5/10), it would be reduced to F (2.5/10). An assignment worth 30% coming in 4 days late would have 4 marks of the grade deducted. This means it would go from P+ (19/30) to P- (15/30). One day later and it would fail! Several capable students have failed this and other papers because their assignments were handed in so late, with no communication with a lecturer or tutor.
Please contact the unit convenor prior to the due date to get an extension. Please provide appropriate supporting documentation for extensions requested over 2 days.
Please be aware that the tutorial programme for external students will be specified on iLearn each week, the schedule below is relevant for your study in terms of the lecture content and required readings only.
Lecture content |
Required readings |
Tutorial programme
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Module 1: What is Human Geography
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L1: Unit Introduction L2: Geographies of Global Change |
‘Geography Matters’ in textbook pp9-43 |
Skill tutorial: Technology (computer lab) |
L3: Contemporary Globalisation |
‘The Changing Global Context’ textbook pp 43-76 |
Content tutorial: Sense of Place |
Module 2: Geographies of Culture and Change
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L4: Into the Anthropocene: Culture and Change L5: Case Study: Indigenous Culture and Change L6: Unsettling colonisation L7: Sex, gender and geography L8: Gendered geographies of music |
‘Cultural Geographies’ in textbook pp 159-201
McLean, J. and Maalsen, S. (2013) ‘Destroying the Joint and Dying of Shame? Geographies of revitalised feminism in social media and beyond’, Geographical Research, 51.3 (2013): 243-256, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-5871.12023/abstract |
Skill tutorial: Critical reading
Skill/content tutorial: Reflection on MQ Geo challenge and ENVG111
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Module 3: Environmental Geographies and Health
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L9: People and Nature L10: Geographies of Natural Disasters L11: Environmental justice and water cultures L12: Climate change and environmental activism (guest lecturer) |
‘People and Nature’ textbook pp 117-159 |
Content tutorial: Health responses to natural disasters |
Module 4: Geographies of Economic Development Mid-session break |
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L13: Economic Geography L14: Food and Agriculture L15: Geographies of consumption L16: Geographies of Development
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‘Geographies of Economic Development’ textbook pp 233-275 |
Skill tutorial: Research skills
Content tutorial: Critical viewing – Food Inc |
Module 5: Urban Geography
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L17:Urbanisation and global change L18: The rise of global cities |
‘Urbanization’ textbook pp 375-410 |
Skill tutorial: Critical writing introduction |
L19: Urban structure and challenges of urbanisation L20: Justice, sustainability and the city |
‘City Spaces: Urban Structure’ textbook pp 411-442
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Skill tutorial: Writing and editing |
Module 6: Political Geography |
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L21: Territory and power L22: Imagining the nation state |
eReserve: Sidaway, J. and Grundy-Warr, C (2012) ‘The place of the nation state’ in Daniels, P W., Bradshaw, M., Shaw, D. and Sidaway, J. (Eds) An introduction to human geography (4th edition). Pearson: Harlow pp. 466-484 |
Content tutorial: Mapping microgeographies of power |
L23: Geopolitics and changing world orders L24: Global governance and climate change |
‘Political Geographies’ from textbook pp323-374 |
Exam tutorial |
L25: Unit review (One lecture this week)
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No tutorial |
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