GE2350:04
Economic and Population Geography
Cairns
HECS Band 1
26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials, 21 hours practicals, 16 hours fieldwork. Semester 1.
Staff: Dr P Griggs.
This subject examines the links between population change, especially rapid growth and ageing, and economic activity at the global level. It introduces students to a range of theories in economic geography and basic concepts in the analysis of change in human populations.
Learning Objectives:
- identify the factors that cause spatial variation in the economic landscape (eg governments, environment, behavioural);
- analyse and predict locational decision making that relates to economic activity;
- demonstrate an understanding of the basic attributes which are used to describe and measure population change;
- identify the major sources of data on global population characteristics and international economic activity.
Assessment by examination (40%); essay 1 (20%); essay 2 (20%); field report (10%); practicals (10%).