Hobart
This interdisciplinary unit is part of the KGA major. It can also be taken as an elective. It is suitable for students with backgrounds including (but not limited to) Business, Economics, English, History, Government, Law, Management, Psychology, Science and Sociology. Please consult the unit coordinator for further information.
Introduction
Over six hundred million people live on the world's 43 island nation-states and on hundreds of sub-national island jurisdictions. The 'island-continent' of Australia comprises over 12,000 islands, islets and rocky outcrops, while the island-State of Tasmania is an archipelago of 334 islands. Islands have distinct geographies and their peoples have varied cultural identities. These particular landforms, and the seascapes that surround them, seem especially hard-wired into Western conceptions of self, place, and planet. Islands are also at the frontline of major environmental and social changes. In this unit, we study a range of issues that affect island places and people—among those issues are climate change, heritage management, tourism, economic development, environmental challenges, and governance. These issues are central to professional careers in fields such as regional development, local government, natural resource management and environmental planning and conservation. A major research project enables you to focus on an area of study about island geographies that interests you and that project may vary according to hemisphere, ocean, island group, jurisdiction, or challenges faced. A three-day field trip enables you to take insights from the cases studied in the class and see whether, how, and to what extent they are present on Bruny Island. The trip also provides crucial training in field techniques in human geography; and is informed by different kinds of field work and analysis including participant observation, qualitative interviewing, visual and textual analysis. The unit offers varied opportunities to develop high-level skills in comparative and case study methods that draw on the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, and prepares you to consider island life and island futures in ways that are of long-term relevance in relation to islands and other places.
Summary 2020
Unit name | Geographies of Island Places |
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Unit code | KGA318 |
Credit points | 12.5 |
Faculty/School | College of Sciences and Engineering School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences |
Discipline | Geography and Spatial Sciences |
Coordinator | Dr Andrew Harwood |
Teaching staff | Dr Andrew Harwood |
Level | Advanced |
Available as student elective? | Yes |
Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Fees
Requisites
Prerequisites
25 Credit Points in Intermediate level units.
Co-requisites
Mutual Exclusions
You cannot enrol in this unit as well as the following:
Teaching
Teaching Pattern | 3 x 50 minute sessions incorporating lectures, discussions, tutorials, and methods + three day field trip |
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Assessment | Field journal and analysis/reflection (35%), project proposal, presentation and paper (35%), in-class test (30%) |
Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
Required | |
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Recommended |
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