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Subject Outline

EESC104

Human Geography: Sustainability, Cities

and Cultures

Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health

School of Earth and Environmental

Sciences

Spring

2013

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Subject Outline Subject code: EESC104 Subject name: Human Geography: Sustainability, Cities and Cultures Credit points: 6 Pre/co-requisites: None Mode of delivery: On Campus Delivery location: Wollongong, Bega, Batemans Bay, Shoalhaven, Southern Highlands

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Copyright and Disclaimer No part of this work may be reproduced without the prior written consent of the University of Wollongong. All requests and enquiries should be directed to the Vice-Principal (Administration), University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia. Within Australia telephone (02) 4221 3920; international +61 2 4221 3920. http://www.uow.edu.au/about/disclaimer/index.html The University of Wollongong attempts to ensure that the information contained here is correct at the time of production, however, sections may be amended without notice by the University in response to changing circumstances or for any other reason.

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Contacts Subject Co-ordinator Name: Prof. Gordon Waitt Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health

Location 41.152

Telephone 61 2 4221 3492 Email smah_student_enquiries@uow.edu.au

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Consultation mode and times: _________________________________________________________________________

Lecturers /

Demonstators Office Phone Email Consultation times

Prof. Gordon Waitt (subject coordinator, lecturer)

41.G20 4221 3684 gwaitt@uow.edu.au

Mon: 2.30 – 4.30 Tues: 2.30 – 4.30

Dr Natascha Klocker (lecturer)

41.G13 4298 1331 natascha@uow.edu.au Tues: 12.30-2.30 Thurs: 12.30-2.30

David Clifton (first year practical coordinator)

- - dc985@uow.edu.au -

Wollongong campus demonstrators

David Clifton - - dc985@uow.edu.au -

Lars Bakker - - lb454@uowmail.edu.au -

Ann de Jong - - aldj998@uowmail.edu.au -

Stephanie Toole - - st921@uowmail.edu.com -

Alex Tindale - - at196@uowmail.edu.au -

Moss Vale campus demonstrator

Dr. Robyn Kelly - - rkelly@uow.edu.au -

Bega campus demonstrator

Andrea Powell - - andrea_powell@uow.edu.au -

Batemans Bay campus demonstrator

Fiona Whitelaw - - fionawh@uow.edu.au -

Shoalhaven campus demonstrator

Gary Marshall - - garryamarshall@gmail.com -

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Subject Information Outline This subject introduces students to the central themes of human geography. The themes introduced in this subject span cultural, economic, tourism, social, population, urban, political and development geographies. A number of questions are examined to introduce these themes. These questions include those that investigate cultures of nature, national identities, international migration, mechanisms of world population growth and global inequalities. Through introducing these themes this subject aims to increase awareness and understanding of the relationships between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’, tourism, population and economic growth. Practical classes introduce students to a range of analytical techniques used in human geography. These techniques including deconstruction, content analysis and participant observation are applied to a range of subject-relevant problems. Learning Outcomes Through successful completion of this subject students will be able to: i) utilise research tools that help provide an insight into social problems of interest to

human geographers; ii) achieve an increased awareness of contemporary social and economic issues that

interest geographers; and iii) critically analyse questions concerning Australian and International Human

Environments. Faculty Graduate Qualities Valuable qualities gained by UOW graduates are essential for gaining employment and making an important contribution to society and their chosen field – further information is available at http://www.uow.edu.au/about/teaching/qualities/ Engagement in this subject will contribute to each student’s development of the following UOW Graduate Qualities: Informed:

• Comprehensive knowledge of an area of Science and well-developed skills in using relevant technologies

• Awareness of the international context in which advances in Science are made and applied

Independent learners: • Critical thinking skills • Scientific approach to the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data

Independence in seeking to extend knowledge through ongoing research, enquiry and reflection:

• Problem solvers • Application of creative, logical and critical thinking to scientific problems

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Effective communicators: • Well-developed written, oral & aural communication • Effective collaboration and teamwork across a range of settings and cultures

Responsible:

• Ethical decision making • Respect for diverse opinions, professions, and cultures

Lecture/Tutorial/Laboratory Times Refer to http://www.uow.edu.au/student/timetables/index.html for an up-to-date timetable. Information for Wollongong Campus students

Lecture Tue 08:30 10:30 35-G45 All weeks And Practical Tue 10:30 12:30 41-157 2,4,6,8,12 Or Practical Tue 13:30 15:30 41-157 2,4,6,8,12 Or Practical Tue 15:30 17:30 41-157 2,4,6,8,12 Or Practical Wed 10:30 12:30 41-157 2,4,6,8,12 Or Practical Wed 13:30 15:30 41-157 2,4,6,8,12 Or Practical Wed 15:30 17:30 41-157 2,4,6,8,12

The lectures for Wollongong Campus students are on: Tuesdays at 8.30 to 10.30 a.m. in Building 35, Room G45. Practicals on the Wollongong Campus only run in weeks 2,4,6,8 and 12. Problem-solving classes will run in weeks 3, 5, 7 and 9; and in room 41.157. Your problem solving classes will be run by David Clifton (dc985@uow.edu.au) on Wednesday at 12.30-1.30pm. These classes are not compulsory but are designed to enable you to ask questions relating to the course and to particular assignments. All students can access the lecture material on Echo360. Access to Echo360 lectures is from a link from EESC104 Moddle page. Bateman’s Bay

Activity Day Start Finish Location Week Video Conference Wed 15:30 16:30 BB-G05 1,5,8,12 Practical Tue 09:30 11:30 BB-G05 2,4,6,8,12

And Problem Solving Class Tue 09:30 10:30 BB-G05 3, 5, 7 and 9

Bega

Activity Day Start Finish Location Week VideoConf Wed 15:30 16:30 BE-G11 1,5,8,12 Practical Wed 16:30 18:30 BE-G12 2,4,6,8,12

And Problem solving class Wed 16:30 17:30 BE-G12 3, 5, 7 and 9

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Southern Highlands

Activity Day Start Finish Location Week VideoConf Wed 15:30 16:30 MV-T1 1,5,8,12 Practical Wed 12:30 14:30 MV-T1 2,4,6,8,12

Problem solving class Wed 12:30 1:30 MV-T1 3, 5, 7 and 9

Shoalhaven

Activity Day Start Finish Location Week VideoConf Wed 15:30 16:30 SH-UG-03 1,5,8,12 Practical Wed 13:30 15:30 SH-UG-30 2,4,6,8,12

Problem solving class Wed 13:30 14:30 SH-UG-30 3, 5, 7 and 9

South Coast and Southern Highland Campus Students will first meet in Week 1 for a video-conference with Gordon Waitt to learn about the subject structure and content. This video conference will be hosted by your tutor in a room in your Access Centre. This one hour class is held on the Wednesday of Week 1. This is an opportunity for you to meet Gordon and/or Natascha ‘face-to-face’ and ask any questions. There are THREE more teleconference meetings specifically for South Coast and Southern Highland-campus students throughout the session. These are in Week 5, Week 8 and Week 12. For the duration of the semester, the lectures for South Coast and Southern Highland Campus students are available through a link from the EESC104 Moodle elearning page. Study Time Students should note that UOW policy equates 1 credit point with 2 hours of study per week that includes lectures and tutorials. For example, in a 6 credit point subject, a total of 12 hours of study per week is expected. Prescribed and Recommended Reading A full list of references, related to lecture themes, is provided in the lecture schedule on the following pages. Students are not expected to read all the references listed. The reading list is to be used to supplement lectures and underpin the ideas explored in practical classes. You should use the library online catalogue system to provide further reading materials.

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The recommended readings are not intended as an exhaustive list and students should use the Library catalogue and databases to locate additional resources. e-Learning This subject has materials and activities available via eLearning. To access eLearning you must have a UOW user account name and password, and be enrolled in the subject. eLearning is accessed via SOLS (student online services). Log on to SOLS and then click on the eLearning link in the menu column. For information regarding the eLearning spaces please use the following links: Moodle - http://uowblogs.com/moodlelab/files/2013/05/Moodle_StudentGuide-1petpo7.pdf

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Lecture Schedule or Topic List Introduction from subject coordinator Welcome to EESC104, Human Geography: sustainability, cities and cultures The lecture content of this subject is designed to introduce students to the questions that interest human geographers. Human geography is a diverse discipline that investigates how people make sense of the world and themselves. It combines conceptual knowledge in social, cultural, economic and environmental processes. Understanding and helping to resolve conflicts and crises makes human geography an immediately socially-relevant discipline. Human geographers have adopted a range of approaches and tools to explore how people understand and manage their world. The range of materials covered in this subject reflects this diversity of both conceptual lenses and techniques. The subject material of EESC104 introduces these concepts and tools through some topical themes explored by human geographers. Subject aims and objectives See practical handbook for more details about learning aims and objectives. There are two aims to this subject: 1. To develop critical thinking through an introduction to the subject matter of human geography. Human geography is a diverse subject. This means that in this subject we cover a diversity of materials that help us to think critically about cultural, economic, social and environmental issues. This subject aims to increase students’ awareness of contemporary topics of interest to geographers. In doing so, it perhaps provides more questions than it does answers.

2. To provide an introduction to the research methods of human geography. Human geographers have a diverse range of research skills and tools. This subject introduces you to some of these skills and tools including report writing, discourse and content analysis. Students will be equipped with research tools that help provide an insight into cultural, economic, social and environmental problems of interest to human geographers. Structure of the Subject The subject is divided into two parts. In Part One, our focus is on questions that draw on mostly Australian examples. In particular, this part of the subject examines a number of questions. By the end of the semester, each student will be able to critically analyse these questions: • What is globalisation and what are its implications for Australia?

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• What is nature? Where are natural places? And where is it possible to find wilderness in Australia?

• Why is it important to ask the question ‘what is nature’ when discussing environmental management?

• How does surveillance operate within cities? • How does tourism produce particular types and ideas about places? How is Australia

sold to overseas tourists? • What is home? Why is a place to call home so important? Why are questions of home so

important in Australia? • What is racism? How does racism operate to territorialise particular places? Why are

certain beaches thought to exclude certain Australians? In Part Two, the focus changes to addressing international questions and examples. This part of the subject examines a number of questions. By the end of the semester, each student will be able to critically analyse these questions: • How do geopolitical boundaries contribute to conflict? How can geography (and

geographers) be implicated in contemporary geopolitical conflicts? • Who is a refugee? What causes contemporary flows of asylum seekers and refugees?

Why is asylum seeking such a controversial issue? • How are cities growing and changing throughout the world? What are some of the key

issues facing global cities, in the developed and developing worlds? • How do cities link into debates about environmental and social sustainability? • How did our world of borders come about? And what do these borders mean? • Why are national borders being more intensely protected to prevent flows of refugees? • What is ‘development’? And what can be done to achieve greater global equity? Students from every faculty within the University will find relevance to their own particular degree in the material presented in the lectures. The subject assumes no previous knowledge of human geography or the topics introduced in the subject. Gordon Waitt Subject Coordinator School of Earth & Environmental Sciences

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Lecture Outline PART ONE: Introducing Australia's Human Environments (Lecturer: Gordon Waitt) Week 1: Introducing Human Geography - What is human geography? Putting the human into geography - What is globalisation? What are the implications for Australian geography? Week 2: What is nature? – Human geographies of the surf – Human geographies of national parks Week 3: Making natural places and making boundaries - What sorts of natural places are made by bushwalking? - What is surveillance? How does surveillance operate within the city? Week 4: What sorts of places do people make through travelling? - How does taking a photograph circulate particular understandings of place? - Selling Australia as an overseas holiday destination Week 5: ‘There’s nowhere like home’ - Locating home - Making homes and homelands through defending territorial claims over Cronulla beach:

thinking spatially about the ‘race riots’ at Cronulla Beach, 2005 Week 6: Making the Australian nation - Thinking spatially about the nation - Thinking spatially about the intersections between vacation, home and nation and

national parks: Traveling to Uluru. Week 7: Mid-term exam – For Wollongong campus students: This first exam lasts for one and half hours and is

held on Tuesday the 10th of September (Week 7) in 35-G45 , in the lecture time slot.

– For South Coast and Southern Highlands campus students the mid-term exam is held on the week beginning the 9th of September (Week 7) during your scheduled practical class.

– This exam takes the format of critical thinking and short-answer questions. – The exam is worth 30% of your final grade.

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PART TWO: Introducing International Human Environments (Lecturer: Dr Natascha Klocker) Week 8: Political geographies – asylum seekers and refugees: contemporary policies and debates - Conflict, refugees, asylum seeking and human rights. - Why is asylum seeking such a controversial issue? - Why are environmental refugees not protected by international law? Week 9: Political geographies - maps, territory and geopolitical conflict - Legacies of colonialism and contemporary geopolitical conflicts? - Case studies: Israel and Palestine; the ‘scramble’ for Africa MIDSESSION BREAK 30TH SEPTEMBER TO 4TH OCTOBER 2013 Week 10: Urban geographies - cities and sustainability (I) - Cities and population growth: do we live in an urban world? - Urban geographies: looking beyond the developed world. - What do social and environmental sustainability mean in the context of cities? Week 11: Urban Geographies - cities and sustainability (II) - Cities and sustainability in the developed and developing worlds: urban planning, social

justice and climate change. Week 12: Development geographies – theories of development - Defining and measuring ‘development’ - Theories of development and underdevelopment - Consequences of uneven development - What is post-development? Week 13: Development geographies - understanding development practice - Development practice: Are there solutions to uneven development? - How has development practice changed? - Participatory development and ‘capacity building’ - Sustainable development Note: towards the end of the Week 13 lecture I will provide information on the final exam. THE FINAL EXAM WILL BE HELD DURING THE FORMAL EXAMINATION PERIOD.

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Practicals/Tutorials • The practical component of this subject involves you learning different research methods

or skills required not only as human geographers but also by potential future employers. • These listed skills include participant observation, online data searches, discourse

analysis, content analysis, report writing, presenting data and oral communication of ideas.

• Students have to complete and hand in practical reports for grading as outlined in the assessment task table included later in this subject outline.

• Forty percent of your final grade is calculated from your FOUR practical reports. • Please consult the Practical Study Guide for further details. • Note: Unless you have an authorised reason for not handing in FOUR practical

reports to a satisfactory standard you will be marked as incomplete, and unable to complete the course.

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Assessment Minimum attendance requirements Students have to attend ALL practicals. Students must provide academic consideration for not attending a practical class or you will be marked as incomplete, and unable to complete the subject. Students must complete ALL FOUR practical reports to a satisfactory standard or you will be marked as incomplete, and unable to complete the subject. Students must sit BOTH exams (mid-term and final). Minimum performance requirements Students need to complete each component at the level specified.

Component Minimum Standard Final Examination 100 level – 40%

To achieve an overall pass grade in EESC104 (i.e. greater or equal to 50 per cent) a student is required to achieve a satisfactory performance in the final examination component. ‘Satisfactory performance’ is defined as 40% in the final exam for 100-level subjects Students who do not meet the minimum performance requirements as set out in the Subject Outline may be given a Fail grade or TF (Technical Fail) grade on their Academic Transcript. See the General Course Rules at http://www.uow.edu.au/handbook/generalcourserules/index.html

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Summary of assessment tasks Task Title Weighting Due Date Assessment 1 Practical Report 1

(compulsory) 10% Week 4 (in practical

class) Assessment 2 Practical Report 2

(complete either Practical Report 2 OR Practical Report 3)

10% Week 8 (in practical class)

Assessment 3 Mid-term exam 30% Week 7 (during lecture time for Wollongong campus, during practical time for other campuses)

Assessment 4 Practical Report 3 (complete either Practical Report 2 OR Practical Report 3)

10% Week 8 (in practical class

Assessment 5 Practical Report 4 (compulsory)

10% Week 10 (email to tutor/demonstrator)

Assessment 6 Practical Report 5 (compulsory)

10% Week 12 (in practical class)

Assessment 7 Final exam 30% During formal examination period.

Reminder: • Submission of FOUR practical class reports is compulsory. Failure to submit ALL FOUR

practical assessments will lead to a fail (F) grade. • Further detail on practical class reports is provided in the practical study guide. Performance grades

HD High Distinction 85–100% D Distinction 75–84% C Credit 65–74% P Pass 50–64% PS Pass Supplementary 50% F Fail (unsatisfactory completion) 0–49% TF Technical Fail No mark recorded

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Scaling Marks awarded for any assessment task (including examinations) may be subject to scaling at the end of the session by the Unit Assessment Committee and/or the Faculty Assessment Committee (FAC). Marks will only be scaled to ensure fairness/parity of marking across groups of students. Scaling will not affect any individual student’s rank order within their cohort. For more information refer to Assessment Guidelines – Scaling http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058609.html Submission and Return of Assessment Items Submission Practical reports should be delivered to your demonstrator by the due date in your practical class. If you are at student attending the Wollongong campus, and you miss this class because of illness or other academic consideration matters, - please email a copy of your report to your tutor/demonstrator. Students are advised to keep an electronic or hard copy of all submitted assessment tasks except in circumstances where this is not possible e.g. where the task is submitted at the end of activity in which it was completed. Acknowledgment Submission of written work will be acknowledged by completion of a School of Earth and Environmental Sciences assignment cover sheet. Your demonstrator will sign this form. The assignment cover sheet can be downloaded from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences web site: http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@sci/@eesc/documents/doc/uow014995.pdf Collection Assignments will be returned in the practical class two weeks after they are handed in. Your demonstrators put a lot of effort into marking your work and providing feedback. Please collect your marked assignments from your demonstrator. Uncollected assessment tasks will be destroyed 21 days after the release of marks for that session. Format of practical reports All practical reports are required to be typed and double-spaced (except for the poster, which should be typed but not double-spaced). Hand-written material is accepted only when part of field-notes in an Appendix. Further detail on the format of practical reports and assessment criteria are provided in the Practical Handbook.

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Students are advised to keep an electronic or hard copy of all submitted assessment tasks except in circumstances where this is not possible e.g. where the task is submitted at the end of activity in which it was completed. Late Submission All assessment tasks are to be submitted on the due dates as specified in this Subject Outline. Assessment tasks submitted late will be penalised by the deduction of 10% of the maximum possible mark for the assessment task per calendar day or part thereof. Deduction of marks will not result in a negative mark. Academic Consideration including Extensions of Time Applications from students for academic consideration should be made only on the grounds of serious or extenuating circumstances. Applications for academic consideration are governed by the University’s Student Academic Consideration Policy at http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058721.html Do not assume that an application for special consideration will be automatically granted. Supplementary Assessments Supplementary assessment may be offered to students who receive a mark of 48% or 49%, and are otherwise identified as meriting an offer of a supplementary assessment. The form of supplementary assessment will be determined at the time the offer of a supplementary assessment is made. For more information refer to the Supplementary Assessment Guidelines http://www.uow.edu.au/content/groups/public/@web/@gov/documents/doc/uow112335.pdf. Note that if you are offered a supplementary examination as the supplementary assessment that you will need to sit the examination in the supplementary examination period. Referencing The Harvard referencing system is used in EESC104 – this is also known as the author-date system due to the order of the information presented. Failure to document adequately and fully is to ignore scholarly rules – and run the risk of plagiarism. Please consult the UOW library website for further information: http://public01.library.uow.edu.au/refcite/style-guides/html/

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Plagiarism Students are responsible for submitting original work for assessment, without plagiarising or cheating, abiding by the University’s policy on plagiarism as set out in the University Handbook under the University’s Policy Directory. Plagiarism has led to expulsion from the University. The University’s Academic Integrity and Plagiarism Policy, Faculty Handbooks and subject guides clearly set out the University’s expectation that students submit only their own original work for assessment and avoid plagiarising the work of others or cheating. Re-using any of your own work (either in part or in full) which you have submitted previously for assessment is not permitted without appropriate acknowledgement. Plagiarism can be detected and has led to students being expelled from the University. The use by students of any website that provides access to essays or other assessment items (sometimes promoted as ‘resources’) is extremely unwise. Students who provide an assessment item (or provide access to an assessment item) to others, either directly or indirectly (for example by uploading an assessment item to a website) are considered by the university to be intentionally or recklessly helping other students to cheat. This is considered academic misconduct and students place themselves at risk of being expelled from the University. http://www.uow.edu.au/about/policy/UOW058648.html

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Assessment Tasks _________________________________________________________________________ Task 1: Due Date: Week 4 (in practical class) Weighting: 10% Details: Report: Practical 1 Compulsory Criteria for assessment: See Subject Outline (page 20) and practical handbook Task 2: Due Date: Week 7 Weighting: 30% Details: Mid-term exam (critical thinking and short answer questions) Criteria for assessment: Subject Outline Task 3: Due Date: Week 8 (in practical class) Weighting: 10% Details: Report: Complete either Practical 2 OR Practical 3) Criteria for assessment: See Subject Outline (page 20) and practical handbook Task 4: Due Date: Week 10 (by email to your demonstrator) Weighting: 10% Details: Practical 4 (Compulsory) Criteria for assessment: See Subject Outline (page 20) and practical handbook

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Task 5: Due Date: Week 12 (in practical class) Weighting: 10% Details: Practical 5 (Compulsory) Criteria for assessment: See Subject Outline (page 20) and practical handbook Task 6: Due Date: Exam week Weighting: 30% Details: Finla emam (Weeks 8-13) Criteria for assessment: See Subject Outline (page 20) and practical handbook

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Assessment critiera for practical reports Assessment of each practical report is based on the following criteria: Presentation and style 1. Structure and organisation (10% of mark) It is important to structure your written material to convey your understanding. Each

practical report should have: a) a clear introduction of its aims and objectives, b) a discussion of the methods used, c) a presentation of the results and, d) a discussion of the results in the conclusion. In the conclusion you may wish to

discuss the limitations of the research design and thus your findings. 2. Writing style (10% of mark) Writing style is important, that is paragraphs, sentences, syntax and punctuation.

Good writing style is essential to communicate your research findings and discussion of arguments.

Content: 1. Addresses the terms of reference (20% of mark) It is essential that you answer the question asked. You can not be awarded marks if

you invent your own question, rather than addressing that asked. 2. Diligence (20% of mark) It is essential that you complete each part of the question. There may be several

sections to complete for a particular report. Make sure that you follow each of the steps outlined in the practical handbook. The steps are presented to assist you.

3. Analysis (20% of mark) Analysis requires you to interpret the data you have collected. This is often the

stage that many students do not complete adequately. Often students collect the data using some technique then stop, or rush through their analysis without thinking about what either the words or numbers they have collected may mean. Careful analysis requires thinking about the data that they have collected. Thinking about data requires not only reading the data, but also thinking about what insights the data reveals.

4. Application of relevant reference material (20% of mark) The practical reports may require you to access references either as sources of

secondary data or as a source of arguments to support your analysis of the data. Thus it is important that you source this reference material correctly. With each report you should also included a reference list following the Harvard System.

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Readings Students are not expected to read all of the following references. The reading list should be used to supplement lectures and underpin the ideas explored in practical classes. You should use the library online catalogue system to provide further reading materials. WEEK 1: INTRODUCING HUMAN GEOGRAPHY What is human geography? Putting the human into geography Suggested Reading Waitt, G. et al. (2000) Introducing Human Geography, Ch. 1, ‘Setting the Scene’, Pearson Education, Sydney Is everywhere in Australia becoming the same because of globalisation? Suggested Viewing Black coffee [videorecording] (2008) (641.3373/2) Suggested Readings: Waitt, G et al. (2000) Introducing Human Geography, “Culture and globalisation”, Pearson Education, Sydney Massey, D. (1994) ‘A global sense of place’. Chapter from Space, Place and Gender, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press reading in manual downloaded from (http://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/geog/021/001/massey.pdf.) Ritzer, G .(2004) The McDonaldisation of Society, Pine Forge Press, California. Watson, J.L. (2005) ‘China’s Big Mac Attack’– in J L Watson and M L Caldwell (eds) The cultural politics of food and eating, Blackwell, Malden PA (394.12/13) WEEK 2: WHAT IS NATURE? Human geographies of the surf Suggested Viewing Bombora [videorecording]: the story of Australian surfing (2009) (797.320994/3) Suggested Reading Brown, D. and Ford, N. (2006) Surfing and Social Theory, Routledge, New York and London (797.32/5) chapter 2 pp. 7-19 ’The enchanted sea: the evolving perceptions of the sea, coastscape and beach’ Waitt, G and Warren, A (2008) ‘Talking shit over a brew after a good session with your mates’: surfing, space and masculinity, Australian Geographer, 39(3): pp 353-365. Human geographies of national parks Suggested Readings Castree, N. (2005) Nature, Chapter 1, London; New York: Routledge (304.2/318) Rose, D.B. (1996) Nourishing terrains: Australian Aboriginal views of landscape and wilderness, Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission (333.73/39 )

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Cronon, W. (1996) in W, Cronon (ed) Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. W W Norton and Co, New York. WEEK 3: MAKING NATURAL PLACES AND SPATIAL BOUNDARIES What sorts of natural places are made by bushwalking? How are spatial boundaries maintained? Suggested Viewing: Thomas, S. (2005) Film Australia's wilderness [videorecording]: real and imagined (333.782099466/3) Suggested Readings: Palmer, L. (2005) Bushwalking in Kakadu: a study of cultural borderlands, Social and Cultural Geography, 5(1), pp. 110-127 Frawley, K. (1999) in Kay Anderson and Fay Gayle Cultural Geographies, Addison Wesley, South Melbourne (304.2/277) Head, L and Muir P (2005) Living with trees- perspectives from the suburbs in Calver, M, Bigler-Cole, H, Bolton, G, Dargavel, Gaynor, A, Horwitz, P, Mills, J and Wardell-Johnson, G(eds), Proceedings of the 6th National Conference of the Australian Forest History Society, Millpress, Rotterdam, 2005, 84-95. This book chapter is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/scipapers/76 Epstien K and Iveson K Locking Down the City (Well, Not Quite): APEC 2007 and urban citizenship in Sydney, Australian Geographer 40 (3) pp. 271-295 Dobson J E and Fisher P E (2007) The panopticon’s changing geography, The Geographical Review, 97(3), 307-323 WEEK 4: WHAT SORTS OF PLACES DO PEOPLE MAKE THROUGH TRAVEL? How does taking a photograph circulate particular understandings of place? Suggested Readings: Crang, M. (1997) Picturing practices: research through the tourist gaze Progress in Human Geography 21 359-373 Goss, J.D. (1993) Placing the market and marketing place: tourist advertising of the Hawaiian Islands, 1972–92. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 11, pp. 663–688 Johnson, R. (1986) ‘The story so far: and further transformations?’, in Introduction to Contemporary Cultural Studies ed. David Punter, Longman, New York, pp. 277–313. (941.082) Ruting B (2012) ‘Like touching with your roots’; migrant’s children visiting the ancestral homelad, Australian Geographer, 43(1) What understandings of Australia are circulated by the Australian tourism industry? Suggested Readings:

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Waitt, G. (1997) Selling paradise and adventure: Representations of landscape in the tourist advertising of Australia, Australian Geographical Studies, 35(1), pp. 47–60. Suggested Viewing: Selling Australia (2001) Film Australia (338.479194/44) Johnston, A (2006) Is the sacred for sale? Tourism and indigenous peoples, London Sterling, VA: Earthscan Horne, J (2005) The pursuit of wonder: how Australia’s landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed, Carlton Vic: Miegunyah Press. WEEK 5: THERE’S NOWHERE LIKE HOME Making home territories – thinking spatially about home Suggested Reading Blunt, A. and Dowling, R. (2006) Home, Routledlge, London and New York (207.366/10) chapter 4, Home, nation and empire Making homes and homelands through defending territorial claims over Cronulla beach – thinking spatially about the ‘race riots’ at Cronulla Beach, 2005 Suggested Reading Perera, S. (2006) Race Terror, Sydney, December 2005, Borderlands, e-journal, 5(1), Online: http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/issues/vol5no1.html WEEK 6: MAKING THE AUSTRALIAN NATION Thinking spatially about the nation Suggested Reading Kell, P. (2000) Good sports: Australian sport and the myth of the fair go Annandale, N.S.W.: Pluto Press, (306.4830994/5) Valentine, G. (2001) Social geographies: space and society, Prentice Hall, New York (304.23/23) – sections of the chapter about community Thinking spatially about the intersections between vacation, home and nation and national parks: Traveling to Uluru Suggested Readings Waitt, G., Figueroa, R. and McGee, L. (2007) Fissures in the Rock, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 32 (2), 248-263 Digance, J. 2003 Pilgrimage at contested sites Annals of Tourism Research 30, pp.143-159. Suggested Viewing Kanyini [videorecording] (2005) Sand Hill Road Pictures (305.89915/347) WEEK 7: Mid-term exam, no readings for this week

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WEEK 8: POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES – ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES Recommended viewing: Documentary: ‘Go back to where you came from’, on SBS

website: http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/goback/episodes/page/i/1/h/Episodes/ Recommended readings: Browne, P. M. (2006) The longest journey: resettling refugees from Africa Published

Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press (305.906914/2) Blay, S. (2006) Restrictive trends in migration flows: a postcard from Australia, Journal of

Migration and Refugee Issues, 2(1): 29-42. [in practical study guide] Bagaric, M. and Dimopoulos, P. (2004) ‘Discrimination as the touchstone of persecution in

refugee law’, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 32(4): 303-331 [in practical study guide]

Klocker, N. (2004) ‘Community antagonism towards asylum seekers in Port Augusta, South Australia, Australian Geographical Studies, 42(1):1-17. [in e-reserve]

Additional readings: Jupp, J., (2002) From white Australia to Woomera : the story of Australian immigration, Port

Melbourne : Cambridge University Press Mares, P. (2001) Borderline: Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, Sydney:

UNSW Press Crock, M.E. and Ben S. (2002) Future seekers: refugees and the law in Australia Annandale,

N.S.W: Federation Press Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (2004) A last resort? National Inquiry into

Children in Immigration Detention, HREOC, Sydney. Klocker, N. and Dunn, K. (2003) ‘Who’s driving the asylum debate? Newspaper and

government representations of asylum seekers’, Media International Australia, 109: 71 – 92.

Marr, D. and Wilkinson, M. (2003) Dark Victory, Allen & Unwin, Sydney. McMaster, D. (2001) Asylum Seekers: Australia’s Response to Refugees, Melbourne

University Press, Melbourne. McNamara, K. (2007) ‘Conceptualizing discourses on environmental refugees at the United

Nations’, Population and Environment, 29, 12-24. McNamara, K .and Gibson, C. (2009) ‘We do not want to leave our land’: Pacific

ambassadors at the United Nations resist the category of climate refugees. Geoforum 40:1.

Parliamentary Library of Australia (good source of online information on asylum policies). WEEK 9: POLITICAL GEOGRAPHIES: MAPS, TERRITORY AND GEOPOLITICAL CONFLICT Optional readings: Davidson, B. (1992) The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the curse of the nation-state.

James Currey Ltd, London (in library) Glassner, M. and Fahrer, C. (2004) Political Geography, Third Edition. John Wiley and Sons,

New Jersey (in library). Pakenham, T. (1991) The Scramble for Africa. Abacus, London (in library).

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WEEKS 10 & 11: URBAN GEOGRAPHIES A reading list for the urban geography lectures will be provided in Week 8. WEEKS 12 & 13: DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHIES Recommended readings: UNDP Human Development Reports, various years (available online) Basu, K. (2006) ‘Globalization, poverty and inequality: what is the relationship? What can be

done?’, World Development, 34(8), pp. 1361 – 1373 [in e-reserve] McGregor, A. (2009) ‘New possibilities? Shifts in post-development theory and practice’,

Geography Compass, 3(5): 1688 – 1702.[in e-reserve] Willis, K. (2005) Theories and Practices of Development [available as electronic resource

from UOW library] Escobar, A. (2000) ‘Beyond the search for a paradigm? Post-development and beyond’,

Development, 43(4): 11 – 14. [in e-reserve] Escobar, A. (1996) ‘Reflections on ‘development’’ Futures, June 1992, pp. 411 – 436. [in e-reserve]

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Commonly asked questions What can I expect to be examined upon? • You will discover that the lectures are structured to help you identify the key learning

points of the subject. • Each lecture starts with a clear specification of its aims, and finishes with some of the

key conclusions drawn from the lecture material. • The aims and conclusions should be used to assist you to identify what you are expected

to learn, and thus what material you will be examined upon. • Employ the aims and conclusions to help with your revision. Where can I find the lecture materials? • You will discover that lectures are available through Moodle. If you are enrolled in

EESC104 you should have access to this lecture material. The e-lecture lecture will appear at least two days after the day the lecture was delivered.

• PowerPoint handouts will also be available on the Moodle site.

Do I need to take lecture notes? Yes • The PowerPoint slides only provide the skeleton of the argument. • You are required to flesh out the argument through listening and note-taking. • Your notes are essential to develop an understanding of the lecture material.

Do I need to read for the exams? Yes • The e-lectures and PowerPoint slides are not to be regarded as a replacement for other

reading. They are an additional guide to your learning. • The e-lectures material and PowerPoint slides provide you with a set of notes and key

questions with which you can test your own understanding of the course material, lecture section by lecture section.

• You can use the e-lectures material and PowerPoint slides as an entry point and guide into the suggested readings in the subject outline.

• You will find several of the suggested readings in the subject outline in the library’s closed reserve section, or in e-resources on the library’s web page.

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General Advice Students should refer to the Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health website for information on policies, learning and support services and other general advice. Use of Electronic Devices in Timetabled Activites Ensure that mobile phones are turned off or turned to silent before timetabled activities. Electronic devices including mobile phones and portable MP3 players should not be accessed during timetabled activities unless otherwise advised.