(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)
On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of having:
1. A detailed understanding of human social, industrial/commercial, political and cultural systems from spatial, environmental and economic perspectives.
2. An understanding of both joint honours subjects’ intellectual development and important theoretical perspectives applied in the study of economics, space, place and the environment;
3. A detailed appreciation of the practical contributions made by economists and geographers to debates and policy on societal and environmental issues, and an understanding of their potential for continuing such contributions;
4. The skills necessary to engage with ideas in the social sciences and humanities;
5. Skills in the use and the application of qualitative and quantitative analysis to geographical study;
6. Skills in the use of quantitative analysis as applied to economic study;
7. Skills in teamwork, investigation, presentation and communication.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to geography.
2. Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to economics.
3. Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility.
Approach to assessment
The assessments at Level 2 build on the knowledge and skills gained at Level 1 and start to build a portfolio of knowledge and key transferable skills relevant to future career pathways within the joint honours disciplines. Assessments have a range of formats in accordance with the learning and skills outcomes of the modules specified at this level in the programme. Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
1. Demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of economics and human geography to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
2. Demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to relevant to the joint honours disciplines;
3. The ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion
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