GEOG121: Life in a Globalising World (100-level): This subject adopts a geographical and interdisciplinary approach to address questions about living in a rapidly changing world. The subject is problem and question-centred to stimulate critical thinking across different domains of life, including the nation-state, the city, the home, and the changing nature of work. Through these domains, we introduce important social science theories to explain community, gender, race, class, power, politics, and social justice. Key themes and issues we engage with include: housing affordability, ethical consumption, global divisions of labour, food insecurity, cities and mobility, migration and refugees, border protection and racism. Student Evaluation Autumn (2024) (2023)
GEOG339: Geographies of Change – Fieldwork Intensive (300-level): Geographies of Change: International Fieldwork Intensive is an immersion field experience for Australian social science students. Content is framed around social and ecological change, introducing students to appropriate ethical, cultural and research skills to respond to social inequities and environmental challenges. Using social and environmental governance as key themes, the experience will be fundamentally cross-cultural and interdisciplinary. The field location will be determined each year. Local experts will provide lecture content and field introductions, and students will work with local researchers on specific research projects. Student Evaluation Summer (2023-2024)
GEOG241: Just and Sustainable Cities (200-level): GEOG241 explores the processes shaping cities as places, economies, communities, and sites of transition towards just and sustainable futures. The subject deals with the urban dynamics of social, economic and cultural change and continuity. A range of theoretical lens are used to unpack the changing social and economic geography of cities through themes of urban economic and technological transformations, changing patterns of social-spatial segregation, urban governance and policy, and the implications for transitions to more just and sustainable cities. Content draws on Australian and well as international case studies. Student Evaluation Autumn (2022)