Geographies of Economic Restructuring and Social Change

Overview

This module is concerned with the analysis of contemporary social and economic change in advanced societies such as Britain and Northern Ireland. It introduces general concepts used to understand social and economic change, introducing topics such as social polarisation and Fordism/Post Fordism. It explores themes like geographies of labour market change, employment equality, and population change and uses examples from Northern Ireland and Belfast to show how these wider changes have played out more locally.

Learning Objectives

By attending lectures students will gain an overview of some of the ways in social and economic restructuring has influenced advanced societies - and Northern Ireland and Belfast in particular - over the past three decades; they will also learn the basics of research social methods and secondary data in Northern Ireland; and also research proposal writing

Skills

Intellectual: understand and use appropriate geographical concepts and theories; discuss and evaluate the main dimensions of the social and economic restructuring of advanced societies; devise a research topic independently: Key: developing reasoned arguments; evaluating different perspectives; supporting viewpoints with appropriate evidence: employability: bibliographic research; experience of government secondary data sources; research proposal writing

Assessment

Coursework