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Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC2108: Political Geographies: Local to Global

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

Module Content

Syllabus Plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics, through both theoretical and practical approaches:

Beginning Where We Are

• Politics, Space and Place in the Everyday
• Approaches to Interdisciplinary Knowing: Methods, Forms, and Practices

Modern Political Geography

• The Space of the State and the International
• Territory and Place
• Borders and Boundaries

“We Have Never Been Modern”: Spaces Against the State

• Feminist and Queer Spaces
• Coloniality, Racialisation and Post-/Decolonial Political Geographies
• Urban Geographies

Contemporary Challenges: Selected Studies in Reterritorialization (different every year)

• Migrations, Refugees, Camps, and Sanctuaries
• Indigenous Sovereignty Claims
• Transnationalism and Social Movements
• Anthropocene, Ecology, and Global Climate Change
• Spaces of Security: Geopolitics and Urban Geopolitics

Learning and Teaching

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Online Resources

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

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