Course overview
This course aims to develop students' critical analytic skills to understand how place and policy interact. It will focus on through investigation of real-world environmental problems and population challenges. It seeks to enhance critical knowledge and understanding using transferable skills learnt from previous courses. Expert-led workshops will integrate diverse specialities contributing to course versatility. Compulsory workshops include small-group learning that draws on a diversity of student and staff professional and cultural backgrounds. Field-based learning will be employed to explore and apply foundational concepts and approaches in an intensive and enriching environment. Through a field-trip students will gain first-hand experience of landscapes and people shaping South Australia and exposure to practical issues.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate understanding of key geographical and environmental issues
- Demonstrate the capacity to apply and develop solutions to issues
- Demonstrate competence in at least one of population, cultural, urban or environmental geography fields
- Demonstrate the capacity to construct and communicate different approaches for geographical and environmental issues across different scales and different social and cultural contexts
- Demonstrate the capacity to apply a range of geography skills to particular real-world problems.