Module manager: Dr Myles Gould
Email: m.i.gould@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module will allow students to develop advanced analysis skills, appreciation of specific population and health topics and linkages with policy relevant issues and academic debates. Some of these advanced skills will potentially be transferable and applicable in both the public and private sectors; and develop distinctive employability profiles.
On completion of this module, students will have developed the following knowledge and skills:
- Understanding of population, wellbeing, and epidemiological principles/concepts
- Developed an ability to analyse and interpret data on population, health, and wellbeing
- Appreciated conceptual debates in population and health geography, demography, medical sociology and public health literatures on variations in health and wellbeing (including biopolitics, population surveillance and governability)
- Appreciated the links between demography/population geography, epidemiology/health geography and key social policy debates
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. To apply a broad range of aspects of human geography
2. To evaluate and criticise received opinion
3. The exercise of initiative and personal responsibility
4. The communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences
5. The application of qualitative and quantitative analysis to geographical study.
6. The critical skills necessary to engage with ideas in the social sciences and humanities; and to employ these ideas as a basis for student's own research.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
1. Research skills
2. Information, data & media literacies
3. Critical thinking
4. Creativity
5. Academic writing
6. Collaboration
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meetings | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Drop-in Session | 3 | 0.3 | 1 |
| Lecture | 18 | 1 | 18 |
| Practical | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| Seminar | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Private study hours | 159 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 41 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
2 x project progress reports (formative only) in weeks 10 and 17 will enable fast-turnaround feedback on ideas and plans of Projects 1 and 2.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Coursework | 50 |
| Coursework | Group work | 50 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 21/03/2025
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