2492 (v.4) Geography 212 - Research Perspectives in Geography

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Area:	Department of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 5 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	3419 (v.4) Geography 312 - Research Perspectives in Geography
Prerequisite(s):	1436 (v.4) Geography 111 - Natural Hazards - Geography of the Global Distribution, Causes and Impacts of Natural Hazards and Strategies Used to Minimise Risks or any previous version AND 1437 (v.4) Geography 112 - Global Change - Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Urbanisation and Social Inequality or any previous version
Historical development of geography. Geographical topics include - systems theory, humanistic, behavioural structural and Marxist approaches. Structuration, realism, feminism, poststructuralism and postmodernism. Emphasis is on the critical analysis of the philosophical foundations of the different paradigms and examination of the contribution each has made to the changing nature of the discipline.