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This course addresses emotions from a geographical perspective. Geographies of the emotions is a large and vibrant subdiscipline within geography and the course addresses a range of ways that geographers have conceptualised and explored what emotions are and how emotions manifest, as well as how emotions move within and across space and place. Specific emotions (including fear/anxiety, love, and hate) will operate as core foci in the course to open up distinct approaches to these emotions that address different historical moments, emerge from different theoretical traditions, and centre on different geographical locations across the world. Central to the course will be explorations of how emotions are central to the formation of and antagonisms within groups, collectivities, nations, and states.

There will be one two-hour lecture a week plus occasional seminars (across 5 weeks).  

Students should have completed Level 2 Geography at minimum of grade C3

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Course essay that addresses key conceptual and empirical materials in relation to two emotions that are used as case studies.

Reassessments are normally available for all courses, except those which contribute to the Honours classification. Where, exceptionally, reassessment on Honours courses is required to satisfy professional/accreditation requirements, only the overall course grade achieved at the first attempt will contribute to the Honours classification. For non-Honours courses, students are offered reassessment in all or any of the components of assessment if the satisfactory (threshold) grade for the overall course is not achieved at the first attempt. This is normally grade D3 for undergraduate students and grade C3 for postgraduate students. Exceptionally it may not be possible to offer reassessment of some coursework items, in which case the mark achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade. Any such exceptions for this course are described below. 

* to introduce students to geographical research on, and debates concerning, the emotions

* to provide a range of theoretical and conceptual models that have been used to explore and study emotions

* to demonstrate how research on emotions has facilitated the burgeoning of new methodological approaches in geography and related disciplines

* to assess how emotions are central to the formation of, and contestation within, groups that range in scale from the dyad to the nation state

By the end of this course students will be able to:

* Explain a range of conceptual approaches to the emotions - what they are, and how they move across space and place

* Understand how and why the sub-discipline within geography addressing the emotions emerged

* Show competency in a range of methods used to investigate the emotions

* Explain how emotions are central to the emergence of collectivities -- as well as to antagonisms within and across collectivities

* Critically assess empirical investigations of the emotions that address different historical moments and geographical sites

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.