NIGK13018U CANCELLED: Rural-Urban Connections in the Global South
MSc Programme in Geography and Geoinformatics
MSc Programme in Geography and Geoinformatics with a Minor
Subject
This course provides advanced understanding of current debates in how urbanization, urban-rural connections and mobility are conceptualized, studied and analyzed, and how this may have implications for possible and actual policy choices. The course outlines urbanization and counter-urbanization trends in the Global South, discusses the interconnections with rural transformations, small town growth, urban hierarchies and how household livelihood strategies straddle urban and rural spheres. The course will draw on case studies from across the Global South.
Knowledge:
- Current debates about urbanization in the Global South, including urban livelihoods, urban-rural linkages, the urban hierarchy, environmental consequences of urbanization, and urban policy and planning challenges.
- Empirical aspects of urban livelihoods, including multi-locality, informal economy, poverty and slums.
- Research methods that can be utilized when collecting primary data and analysing secondary data.
Skills:
- Identify key processes and challenges in rural transformations and urbanization in the Global South
- Identify relevant theories and monitoring tools for analyses of these processes
- Locate the potential impact of global, national and local policies on urban livelihoods
- Sequence a variety of research methods for the assessment of urban livelihoods, including both quantitative and qualitative tools
- Structure, write and defend an essay
Competences:
- Analyze, assess and apply results, methods, theory and data in connection with urbanization in the global south
- Discuss how political narratives of rural-urban connections and urbanization interact with the academic literature
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- Category
- Hours
- Preparation
- 136
- Project work
- 35
- Theory exercises
- 35
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentOral examination, 20 minutesThe written assignment is prepared during the course and must be handed in prior to the exam week. The oral exam uses the written assignment as its point of departure. It includes the titles listed in the officially approved reading list. A combined grade is given after the oral exam.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners.
- Re-exam
Re-submission of written assignment, 20 minutes oral examination. The written assignment must be handed in prior to the re-examination week. The oral exam uses the written assignment as its point of departure. It includes the titles listed in the officially approved reading list.
Criteria for exam assesment
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Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NIGK13018U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedule
- A
- Course capacity
- 25 students (1 class of 25).
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Geosciences and Management
Contracting department
- Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management
Course responsibles
- Michael Helt Knudsen (20-736f696e676b72346e6b727a3471747b6a796b74466d73676f7234697573)