Geography

Global Geographies of Economic Change

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

This module will provide students with a critical introduction to the vibrant field of economic geography. It will involve learning about a range of different theoretical approaches and core concepts that help us understand the geographic dimensions of the global economy and society. It will furnish students with a background on the historical and contemporary processes that have shaped today’s global economy. It will also provide students with the tools to interpret a range of pressing contemporary real-world issues that link the ‘economic’ with the ‘geographic’, such as the governance of the global financial and information technology sectors, global and regional inequality, international development, and 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