Overview
We face significant challenges including population growth, uneven development, over/under consumption, climate change, poverty, racism, and food security. Human Geography helps us to understand these challenges and imagine sustainable futures.
Geographies of Sustainable Futures provides a basis for comprehending and managing many of the issues facing New Zealand and the World, including population growth, uneven development, climate change, poverty, discrimination, and exclusion. The course helps us to understand these challenges and imagine sustainable futures through the study of relationships between people, places and environment within different spatial settings.
Geographies of Sustainable Futures introduces the field of Human Geography, a discipline that is a unique bridging subject.
GEOG 102 is concerned with various patterns and processes of human behaviour, meanings and interaction within social, economic, political and cultural environments, and focuses on human-spatial relations within places at local, regional, national, transnational and global scales.
About this paper
| Paper title | Geographies of Sustainable Futures |
|---|---|
| Subject | Geography |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period | Semester 2 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,318.20 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music, Science
- Eligibility
There are no specific admission requirements. Acceptance to study at the university is all that is required. You need not have studied Geography at school.
- Contact
- Teaching staff
Teaching Coordinator: Prof Etienne Nel
Teaching Fellow: Ben Varkalis
- Paper Structure
The course comprises four modules:
- People, Global Development and Sustainability
- People, Urbanization and the Economy
- People, Food and Sustainability
- People, inequalities, and sense of place
- Teaching Arrangements
Three lectures a week and a tutorial every second week.
- Textbooks
There is no single text book required. Students will be referred to material in the library and on-line.
- Course outline
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Environmental literacy, Teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course students should:
- have a good understanding of the content, key concepts, and core sub-disciplines in contemporary Human Geography;
- be familiar with, and be able to apply, basic methods of study and techniques of analysis in Human Geography;
- be able to interact and communicate effectively as a member of a small group;
- be able to analyse critically, and to communicate analysis effectively, both orally and in writing;
- be well prepared to progress to second year papers in Geography and to apply geographical perspectives in other subjects.
- Assessment details
Assessment is 50% internal (on-going during the semester) and 50% external (final examination)