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Hobart, Launceston

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Unit name Global Geographies of Change
Unit code KGA171
Credit points 12.5
Faculty/School College of Sciences and Engineering
School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences
Discipline Geography and Spatial Sciences
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Requisites

Prerequisites

Co-requisites

Mutual Exclusions

You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:

  • XPD122
  • JFA109
  • KGA121
  • KGA151
  • KGA161

Teaching

Teaching Pattern

2 x 1-hr lectures per week and 36 hours of practical, field and tutorial teaching (on-campus) or 2 x 1-hr lectures per week, 20 hrs on-line workshop activities and 16 hrs (2 day) residential.

Assessment

2-hr exam (40%), 1 x 1200-word essay (20%), workshop portfolio (30%), on-line quizzes (10%)

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Textbooks

Required

Dahlman, C.T. and Renwick, W.H. 2015. Introduction to Geography: People, Places & Environment, 6th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River NJ.

Recommended

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