121-403 Advanced Coursework in Economic Geography

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Admission to 4th year Geography Honours, or to the Postgraduate Diploma or Coursework Masters programs in Geography.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

Seminars, directed reading and directed research on current topics in economic geography. Topics may be selected from: industrial restructuring, labour markets, Asian Pacific development, environment and economy. Students who complete this subject should: understand the current directions of research programs in economic geography; be aware of the theoretical and methodological principles underlying those research programs; know the central findings of those research programs, especially as they apply to Australia; be capable of undertaking directed research in one of those research programs.

Assessment

Written work in the form of seminar and research papers of 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts

There are no prescribed texts for this subject.