Economic Geography

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand and analyse critically literature on key contemporary themes and transformations in economic geography.
• Abstract and utilise information on economic change from a range of different sources.
• Understand the relationships between production, value, knowledge and innovation as they shape particular economic places.
• Understand the processes driving spatial economic differences in a global era, and the roles of key actors such as firms and the state.
• Pursue knowledge in an in-depth, organised and logical way.
• Understand the ways in which geography is integral to contemporary innovation, economic knowledge, creativity and production.
• Structure conceptual and empirical geographical material into a reasoned and justified argument.
• Understand theoretical perspectives on economic geography and the causes of key transitions in the nature of the contemporary space economy.
• Design and complete two substantial essays in economic geography to a high standard.
• Evaluate the merits of alternative theories and approaches in economic geography.

The course is likely to cover these topics:

Cities and uneven development

Specialization and agglomeration

Regional inequality in the UK

Money and Financialization

Wage inequality

Economy and Nature

Alternative concepts of economic development

This module is delivered via lectures and your learning will be supported by independent study.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.