Unit of Study CLST2005 Space, Place and Travel (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
Placement

No

Unit description

Introduces students to narratives of identity and location and their relation to ideas about space, place and memory in the context of cultural geography. Consideration will be given to how the coordinates of identity and belonging are mapped out across space and place. By undertaking a localized application of this imaginative and theoretical work with field trips, students will address their own landscape of belonging and their sense of place.

Unit content

Module 1: The social production of space

Module 2: Imagining Australian and global space

Module 3: The metropolis and its others

Module 4: Spaces and identities: gender and sexuality

Module 5: Race in a geographical context

Module 6: Visiting other places: travel and tourism

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term2	Term2
Online	Term2	N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

understand sociocultural theories of space and place from both Global North and Global South perspectives

understand the significance of acknowledging people's multiple and intersectional experiences of space, place and travel

identify and describe the changing significance of people’s social locations and diverse identities in accounts of space, place and navigation

demonstrate a critical awareness of belonging and displacement in constructions and interpretations of urban/rural spaces in the context of white colonial discourses of modernity

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Project	60%
Project proposal	40%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Project	60%
Project proposal	40%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Resources/Equipment

No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

Fee information

Domestic

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