Geography
121-201 GEOGRAPHY PART 2 (PASS)
Students in Geography Part 2 should consult the departmental notice- board for the manner of paying excursion accommodation charges.
Four of the following courses are to be taken:
First Term: Terrain Analysis.
Second Term: In the first five weeks Historical Geography A
or
Population Geography In the second five weeks Historical Geography B or
Quantitative Methods.
Third Term: Location Theory or
Political Geography
Students may take Historical Geography B without having taken His- torical Geography A.
The choice of course is subject to the approval of the chairman of the department and students should consult him before making their choice.
EXAMINATION
Two 3-hour papers. Assessment of field work, practical work and essays will be used In assessing students examination results.
First Term
TERRAIN ANALYSIS. A course of two lectures and three hours' practical work per week throughout the term; four days' field work.
SYLLABUS
Methods of classifying and mapping landforms, soils and vegetation. Land systems. Land research methods used in Australia and elsewhere. Land evaluation.
BOOKS For reference:
lsachenco A G Principles of Landscape Science and Physical-Geo- graphic Regionalization, ed J S Massey MUP 1973
Reading lists will be given in class.
Second Term (First isve weeks)
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY A. A course of two lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week during the first five weeks of second term. One essay (about 2,000 words).
SYLLABUS
The nature and problems of historical geography. A series of case studies of particular regions and countries exhibiting the changing interaction of geographical and historical circumstances on the distribution and organization of settlement, agriculture and industry. The lectures will deal with European, North American, and southern African topics and the tutorials with Australian ones.
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Geography BOOKS
Recommended reading:
Mitchell J B Historical Geography, revised ed 1968 EUP
Hoskins W G The Making of the English Landscape, Pelican 1970 Smith C T An Historical Geography of Western Europe before 1800,
Longman 1967
Further references will be given in class.
OR
POPULATION GEOGRAPHY. A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week for the first five weeks of term. A practical exercise will be done by each student.
SYLLABUS
Study of population distribution and dynamics and relationships with economic growth.
BOOKS
Recommended for preliminary reading:
Wrong D Population and Society, Random House Peterson W Population, Macmillan
Demko G J Rose H M& Schnell G A Population Geography: A Reader, McGraw-Hill
Other readings will be given in class.
Second Term (second five weeks)
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY B. A course of two lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week during the second five weeks of second term. One essay (about 2,000 words).
SYLLABUS
Further case studies as for Historical Geography A. Both the lectures and tutorials will deal with Australian topics.
BOOKS
Recommended reading:
Perry T M Australia's First Frontier, MUP 1966
Jeans D N An Historical Geography of New South Wales to 1901, Reed 1972
Powell J M The Public Lands of Australia Felix, OUP 1970
Peel L Rural Industry in the Port Phillip Region 1835-1880, MUP 1974 OR
QUANTITATIVE METHODS. A course of two lectures and one 3-hour practical class per week during the second five weeks of second term.
SYLLABUS
A survey of the changing place of mathematical methods in geography.
The practical exercises will deal with methods used In recent geographi- cal publications.
BOOKS
Reading lists will be given in class.
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Third Term
LOCATION THEORY. A course of three lectures and either one 1-hour tutorial or one 3-hour practical per week throughout the term; one essay (2,500 words).
SYLLABUS
Physical and other factors influencing the distribution of economic activi- ties. The common patterns of associations of economic activities. Loca- tion theory, particularly relating to primary and secondary industry. Space relations and their quantitative analysis. Regional complexes of activi- ties and inter-regional linkages.
BOOKS
Lloyd P E & Dicken P Location in Space: a theoretical approach to economic geography, Harper & Row, New York 1972
OR
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. A course of two lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the term.
SYLLABUS
The scope and methods of political geography. Frontiers and boundaries, including maritime boundaries and the international division of the continental shelf. Electoral geography. Geography and national policies.
BOOKS
Prescott J R V Political Geography, Methuen 1972
121-301 GEOGRAPHY PART 3 (PASS)
Students in Geography part 3 should consult the departmental notice- board for the manner of paying excursion accommodation charges.
EXAMINATION Two 3-hour papers.
Assessment of field work, practical work and essays will be used in assessing students' examination results.
One of the following courses to be taken each term.
First Term
THE COASTAL ENVIRONMENT. A course of three lectures and three hours' practical work per week throughout the term; the practical work may be in the form of field trips. Four days' additional field work will be required.
SYLLABUS
Coastal features and the physiographic and ecological processes at work on them. The utilization and management of coastal environments with particular reference to recreation and conservation. Coastal processes and the evolution of coastal Iandforms.
BOOKS
Bird E C F Coasts, ANU Press
Geography OR
GEOGRAPHY AND DEVELOPMENT: MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA.
A course of three lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the term; one essay.
SYLLABUS
The processes of economic growth and underdevelopment and the evolution of regional inequalities in resource use and welfare; inter- national and national space economies; planning for national and regional change. Malaysia and Indonesia treated as special but not exclusive examples.
BOOKS
Recommended for preliminary reading:
Frank A G Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution?, Monthly Review Press 1970
Friedman J Regional Development Policy: a case study of Venezuela, MIT Press 1966
Johnson E A The Organisation of Space in Developing Countries, Har- vard UP 1970
Missen G J Viewpoint on Indonesia: a geographical study, NAP 1972 Additional readings will be given in class.
Second Term
ECONOMIC AND URBAN GEOGRAPHY. A course of three lectures and three hours' practical work or one 1-hour tutorial per week through- out the term. Four days' field work.
SYLLABUS
Factors influencing the distribution of economic activities. Patterns of associations of economic activities. Regional complexes. The process of urbanization and the economic role of cities and theories of the location of economic activities within cities. Metropolitan expansion and attendant problems.
BOOKS
Lloyd P E & Dicken P Location in Space: a theoretical approach to economic geography, Harper & Row, New York 1972
Johnson J H Urban Geography — an introductory analysis, Pergamon Rose A J Patterns of Cities, Nelson
Rugg D S Spatial Foundations of Urbanism, Wm C Brown Company Publishers
Additional reading lists will be given in class.
Third Term
APPLIED GEOGRAPHY. A course of three lectures and one tutorial per week throughout the term; one essay (2,500 words).
SYLLABUS
The application of a geographical training to the solution of practical problems, notably in the fields of resource evaluation, land use planning, environmental management and conservation. Emphasis will be given to case histories of such problem-solving by geographers, both indi- vidually and as members of multidisciplinary teams.
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BOOKS
Reading lists will be given in class.
HONOURS DEGREE
P. SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY
(For possible combinations with this school see pp. 439 ff.)
1. The course for the degree with honours in the school of Geography comprises the following subjects:
First year: Geography 1 (as for the ordinary degree) and three other first-year subjects selected from the subjects of the degree of Bachelor of Arts (ordinary degree), preferably including at least one of the first year subjects in Mathematics, Statistics, History, Economics, Govern- ment or Geology. Candidates for admission to the honours school at the beginning of their second year will be selected on their performance in the annual examination in Geography 1, on the quality of their practical and written work in Geography 1, and on their examination results in their other first-year subjects. Students who have failed a first-year subject will not normally be admitted to the honours school.
Second year: Geography 2 (as for the ordinary degree), Geography 2A (honours), and one other subject being the second part of a major.
Third year: Geography 3 (as for the ordinary degree), Geography 3B (honours), and one other subject being the third part of a major.
Fourth year: Geography 4. No subject other than Geography 4 may be taken in the fourth year. Admission to the fourth year of the honours school is dependent on candidates being awarded honours in the annual examinations for Geog- raphy 2 and 2A, and Geography 3 and 38, and having completed all the subjects of the first three years of the honours course listed above.
2. Admission to the Honours School must be approved by the faculty through the Sub-Dean, and by the chairman of the department of Geography.
3. The order in which the above subjects are taken must be approved by the chairman of the department of Geography if the subjects are not to be taken in the order listed above.
Students in Geography part 1 (hops), part 2 (hofs), and part 3 (hots), should consult the departmental notice-board for the manner of paying excursion accommodation charges.
GEOGRAPHY IN COMBINED COURSES
The subjects required by the Geography department as part of combined honours courses are as follows:
First year: Prescribed Geography part 1
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Geography dents take, where possible, at least one subject from the following—History, Economics, Government, Statistics, Mathematics or Geology.
Second year: Geography 2
Geography 2A honours Third year: Geography 3
Geography 3B honours
Fourth year: Selected sections of Geography 4
A thesis of not more than 9,000 words approved by the chairman of each department in which the student is taking his combined course.