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Year 4 Geography.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year.
Coordinator: Dr Ray Wyatt.
Prerequisite: Entry to Honours.
Contact: A two hour seminar each week and attendance at departmental research seminars.
Timetable: Double semester
Objectives:
After completing this subject, the student should have:
- an understanding of the nature of science (including Geography);
- developed an understanding of major conceptual debates in contemporary human and physical geography, and their implications for research methodology;
- gained awareness of selected philosophical traditions in the discipline, and their theoretical and empirical manifestation in contemporary geography.
Content:
Geography as a science; philosophical issues in geographic research. Seminars on contemporary research in Geography.
Assessment:
Essays and seminar papers totalling 6,000 words.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 88)
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