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Unit Summary
Unit aim
Introduces students to narratives of identity and location and their relation to ideas about space, place and memory in the context of cultural geography. Consideration will be given to how the coordinates of identity and belonging are mapped out across space and place. By undertaking a localized application of this imaginative and theoretical work with field trips, students will address their own landscape of belonging and their sense of place.
Unit content
Module 1: Theories of space
Module 2: Experiencing psychic, social and physical boundaries
Module 3: Imagining geographies: the metropolis and the rest (frontier, sprawl and suburbia)
Module 4: Spaces and identities: gender and sexuality
Module 5: Race and religion in a geographical context
Module 6: Places on the margin, travel and tourism
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | understand sociocultural theories of space and place from both Global North and Global South perspectives |
| 2 | understand the significance of acknowledging people's multiple and intersectional experiences of space, place and travel |
| 3 | identify and describe the changing significance of people’s social locations and diverse identities in accounts of space, place and navigation |
| 4 | demonstrate a critical awareness of belonging and displacement in constructions and interpretations of urban/rural spaces in the context of white colonial discourses of modernity |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- understand sociocultural theories of space and place from both Global North and Global South perspectives
- understand the significance of acknowledging people's multiple and intersectional experiences of space, place and travel
- identify and describe the changing significance of people’s social locations and diverse identities in accounts of space, place and navigation
- demonstrate a critical awareness of belonging and displacement in constructions and interpretations of urban/rural spaces in the context of white colonial discourses of modernity
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.