Geography

Global Geographies of Economic Change

Module code: 018GRA
Level 5
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Lecture
Assessment modes: Essay

On this module, you’ll get a critical introduction to the field of economic geography. You’ll learn about a range of different theoretical approaches and core concepts that help us understand the geographic dimensions of the global economy and society.

The module will give you a background on the historical and contemporary processes that have shaped today’s global economy. You’ll develop the tools to interpret a range of pressing contemporary real-world issues that link the ‘economic’ with the ‘geographic’. These include:

• the governance of the global financial and information technology sectors
• global and regional inequality
• international development
• sustainability transitions.

Module learning outcomes

• Demonstrate an understanding of a range of different theoretical approaches within the field of economic geography
• Explain how the unevenness in today’s global economy and society, between different countries, regions and groups, has been produced historically.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how different places are shaped by economic processes, and how governments have sought to manage these processes
• Apply economic geography concepts to interpret and analyse a range of contemporary social, economic, and environmental challenges