Economic Geography, photo: Erika Wittlieb
By the end of the course it is expected that the students will have developed adequate knowledge of:
Epistemological turns and critical debates in the historic development of Economic Geography. The spatial dimensions of economic activities. Industrialization, mass production and spatial structures. Classical location theories. Theoretical approaches to balanced and uneven spatial development. The crisis of Fordism, de-industrialization and their spatial effects. Flexible accumulation, business networks/clusters, and neo-Marshallian industrial districts. Economic globalization through the prism of critical Economic Geography. The restructuring of capitalism and the development of postindustrial and postmodern cities.
Lectures (2 hours per week)
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Activity |
Semester workload |
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Lectures (3 hours/week x 13 weeks) |
39 hours |
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Independent study (including the study necessary for the assignments) |
111 hours |
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Total number of hours for the Course (25 hours of work-load per ECTS credit) |
150 hours (total student work-load) |
The students’ assessment is based upon: (1) written exams at the end of the semester (60% of the final course grade) and (2) group assignments/written essays that each student group must present and discuss in the class (40% of the final course grade)*. The above percentages may change depending on the level of difficulty of the assignments.
The evaluation criteria are presented orally during the introductory course lecture and are clearly defined in the “course guide” which is uploaded in e-class (and therefore easily assessible to the enrolled students). In the e-class the students can also find a “guide for successful work presentation” in which the relating guidelines and criteria are clearly defined.
[* In order for the assignment grade to “count” in the final course grade, the student should get at least the grade 5.0 in the final written exam].
