Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor and Lecturer
Jessica McLean
Contact via email: jessica.mclean@mq.edu.au
W3A, room 416
Tuesday mornings, 10am-12pm.
Lecturer
Claudio Minca
Lecturer
Sara Fuller
Lecturer
Andrew McGregor
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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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Late Submission Penalty
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline.
To successfully pass GEOP111 students must complete all assessment tasks. Failure to complete any single assessment task may result in failure of the unit. The final grade is based on the total mark accumulated from all assessment tasks.
All students must keep a clean electronic copy of all assignments (preferably as a PDF) submitted for assessment.
All students must make themselves available during the official Examination Period.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Short essay | 20% | No | 26/3/2018 at 5pm |
Research essay | 35% | No | 18/05/2018 at 5pm |
Final Exam | 35% | No | Exam period starts 12th June |
Participation and engagement | 10% | No | Ongoing |
Due: 26/3/2018 at 5pm
Weighting: 20%
Critically describe three important aspects of geographies of global change. To do so, read the following readings ONLY:
Crang, P. 2014. ‘Local-global’ in (eds) P. Cloke, P. Crang & Goodwin, M. Introducing Human Geographies, Routledge: London, pp 7-22. (available as online text through www.library.mq.edu.au )
Knox, P. & Marston, S. 2015. ‘Geography Matters’ in (eds) Knox, P. & Marston, S. Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, Pearson: Edinburgh, pp 28-56.
Massey, D. 2014. ‘Taking on the world’, Geography 99 (1): 36-39. (available as online text through www.library.mq.edu.au )
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 essay are NOT included in this word count.
Essays will be submitted electronically through iLearn and graded by your tutor.
In your essay, it is essential to draw on specific examples from the readings and write a coherent, clear argument.
Extensions must be requested and granted prior to the due date. Requests must be processed through ask.mq.edu.au.
Feedback will be available via your Turnitin submission.
Due: 18/05/2018 at 5pm
Weighting: 35%
'The structures and flows of globalisation are variously embraced, resisted, subverted, and exploited as they make contact with specific places and specific communities. In the process, places and regions are reconstructed rather than effaced.’ (Knox and Marston, 2014:73).
Critically analyse this quote from your textbook. In your essay, provide two clear examples of places and regions that have been reconstructed by the structures and flows of globalisation.
Essay writing requirements:
In your essay, it is essential to draw on specific examples from your research, reading, lectures and tutorials.
Extensions must be requested and granted prior to the due date. Requests must be processed through ask.mq.edu.au.
Feedback will be available via your Turnitin submission.
Due: Exam period starts 12th June
Weighting: 35%
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 during the exam period.
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 10%
Your online preparation and engagement will be assessed throughout the semester. Detailed instructions are available on iLearn. Ensure you read these instructions closely.
Classes
Unit offered:
Session 1, 2018. Internal and External enrolments are possible.
Lectures:
Lectures (each one hour) are held at
Lectures and tutorials start at five minutes past the hour and finish at five minutes before the hour. External students are expected to keep up to date with the twice weekly lectures and listen to them online before doing tutorial activities.
Students can also livestream lectures. For more information on this mode of engaging with lectures, please go to: https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/tools-and-resources/ilearn/ilearn-quick-guides-for-students/lecture-recordings
Tutorials:
GEOP111 has a full schedule of tutorials that enhance your general and discipline-specific skills and knowledge. It is important that you participate in all tutorials for GEOP111.
Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials
Most of the readings come from the required text:
Knox, P. and Marston, S. (2016). Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context. New International Edition. Pearson, Harlow. NB: Earlier editions of the textbook are fine for the purposes of this unit.
This textbook comes with access to MasteringGeography, a useful tool for successful learning in GEOP111, but it is optional.
Other readings will be assigned during the session which may be accessed by iLearn and eReserve.
Other recommended texts include:
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.
Unit webpage and Technology used and required
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 GEOP111. External students complete the entire unit online.
Unit webpage - GEOP111
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 an internal email system. The webpage will provide you with access to lectures through the University's echo360 lecture recording facility, as well as to follow-up discussion, links, readings supplied by teachers of GEOP111 and forum discussions.
The table below indicates the schedule for GEOP111 in 2018. There will be some changes as the unit is refined before semester start so please follow the final schedule that will be posted in iLearn before semester starts.
Week | Topic | Readings | Tutorials |
1 | Introducing the unit/Contemporary globalisation | 'Geography Matters' in textbook |
Technology for GEOP111 |
2 | Geographies of Global Change/ Research skills | 'The Changing Global Context' in textbook | Why am I studying GEOP111? Future employment |
3 | Political Geography 1 | 'Political Geography' in textbook | Critical writing skills |
4 | Political Geography 2 | To be confirmed (TBC) | Mapping micro-geographies of power |
5 | Development Geographies 1 | TBC | Geographies of food security |
6 | Development Geographies 2 | TBC | Doing development differently |
7 | Environmental Humanities/Animal Geographies | Cronon's 'The Trouble with Wilderness' |
Online workshop on the Environmental Humanities |
8 | Into the Anthropocene? | 'People and nature' in textbook | Querying the Anthropocene: Critical reading and thinking |
9 | Urban Geography 1 | 'Urbanisation and the Global Urban System' in textbook | Sustainable cities |
10 | Urban Geography 2 | TBC | Census in the city: Data analysis skills |
11 | Cultural Geographies/Unsettling colonisation | 'Cultural Geographies' in textbook | 'Sense of Place': The global in the local |
12 | Geographies of music/Sex, gender and geography | McLean et al 2016. 'Learning from Feminism in Digital Spaces: Online methodologies' in library reserve | Geography and gender: spaces of sexism and safety |
13 | Reviewing GEOP111 and looking to future studies and work | No new readings | No tutorial |
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The MQ Geo Challenge is now able to be undertaken by all students, internal and external. External students are able to submit their completed work online rather than present in a classroom setting.
The research essay question has been redesigned to help students construct a clear essay and think critically about complex local and global forces of change.
In 2017 there is a 10% participation grade for internal students to assess their contribution to tutorial discussions. This will reward students for contributing to valuable conversations that will advance their learning.
Three modules now have blended learning activities that aim to support students in discovering what future careers they may undertake in geography and planning and how their current studies are relevant to everyday planning and governance issues.