Geographical Research in the Field (Human Geography Overseas Field Course)

Module code: GY2415

In semester two of the second year, Human Geographers take a field course training module that culminates in a one week trip to a North American City. You'll develop skills in preparation for your independent project work, particularly that of the final year dissertation.This urban field trip to Vancouver is organised around themes including:

• The politics of housing and gentrification
• International migration and settlement in historical and contemporary times, and the impact of these processes on urban society
• Vancouver’s plan to become the greenest city and what this may mean for environmental justice in the city 
• Colonialism, dispossession and the opportunity for students to learn from indigenous peoples about their struggles against inequality

Learning

• 7 hours of lectures
• 15 hours of seminars
• 60 hours of fieldwork
• 68 hours of guided independent study

Assessment

• Group fieldtrip presentation (10%)
• Group field blog (15%)
• Individual research report (75%)