Module Catalogue

GEO2122 : Political Geography (Semester 2 for Exchange Students)

  • Offered for Year: 2024/25
  • Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
  • Module Leader(s): Professor Nick Megoran
  • Lecturer: Dr Matt Benwell, Dr Ingrid A. Medby, Dr Matthew Richmond
  • Owning School: Geography, Politics & Sociology
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value: 10
ECTS Credits: 5.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

This course aims to give students a thorough grounding in the concepts, practices and disciplinary traditions of political geography. In doing so, students will be equipped with the skills to critically analyse the spatialities of political life from local to global scales.

Outline Of Syllabus

LECTURES

Part 1: GEOPOLITICS
Geopolitics, classical and critical
The War on Terror I&II
Popular geopolitics
Environmental and Resource geopolitics
Great Power Geopolitics
Practical/performative geopolitics
Geopolitics and nonviolence
Concepts that matter: Planetary political geography

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion115:0015:00N/A
Structured Guided LearningLecture materials92:0018:00
Guided Independent StudyDirected research and reading165:0065:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesSmall group teaching21:002:00Optional reading seminars
Total100:00
Jointly Taught With
Code Title
GEO2047Political Geography
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The lectures, activities and directed reading aim to thoroughly ground students in the concepts, practices and disciplinary traditions of political geography, focusing on Geopolitics and Citizenship, to critically evaluate these, and to connect them to a broad range of case studies in the world today.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Essay2M1002000 words
Formative Assessments

Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.

Description Semester When Set Comment
Written exercise2MFormative assessment to be agreed between student and ML on an individual basis, from options including an annotated bibliography, oral presentation, or essay.
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

1. Essay will assess knowledge and understanding of political geographic concepts relating to Geopolitics and Citizenship and their application to current affairs.

Reading Lists

Timetable