Human Geography

• • Introduction: Space, Place and Globalisation
  • Globalisation and Cultural GeographyPopulation (Demography)
  • Population: Crisis or Crises?
  • Migration
  • Geographies of Language
  • Political Geographies: Geography of Power and the Power of Geography
  • Urban Geographies: The Urban Order
  • Geographies of Development
  • Economic Geographies
  • Agricultural Geographies
  • Environmental Challenges

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-GPH11-Introduction to Human Geography (No longer available)

You won't be able to enrol into this subject if you've already successfully completed or currently enrolled in the following subject(s) as they are considered anti-requisites due to the similarity of the content.

• CUR-GPH510-Human Geography

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject was previously known as GPH11 Introduction to Human Geography.

This subject provides an introduction to human geography at the local-global scale focussing on the key concepts of place; space and globalisation. Topics include: population; migration; mapping; rural/urban change; and the relationships between people, resource use and the environment.

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• Essay (40%)
• Report (40%)
• Test (20%)

Current study term: 28 Aug 22 to 27 Nov 22