Summer 2018 - GEOG 221 C100
Economic Geography (3)
Class Number: 5117
Delivery Method: Distance Education
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Distance Education
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Prerequisites:
GEOG 100.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
The basic concepts of economic geography, involving consideration of the spatial organization and development of economic and resource based systems. Breadth-Social Sciences.
COURSE DETAILS:
GEOG 221 is designed to offer an introduction to how markets and institutions interact in place and space to shape economic processes. Our overall objective is to explain how and why the global economy is both differentiated and integrated. We especially focus on understanding the routines of daily life, and why these routines vary from place to place and change over time. This course pursues an institutional perspective to economic geography in which institutions are understood as the formal and informal rules and conventions that organize human behaviour. The course is applicable to market economies in general, and draws considerably upon Canadian experience.
Grading
- Discussions 10%
- Assignments 20%
- Online Tests 70%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Economic Geography: An Institutional Approach, 2nd edition (2016)
ISBN: 9780199013289
Centre for Online and Distance Education Notes:
All CODE Courses are delivered through Canvas unless noted otherwise on the course outline.
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Required Readings listed on the course outlines are the responsibility of the student to purchase. Textbooks are available for purchase at the SFU Bookstore on the Burnaby campus or online through the Bookstore's website.
All CODE courses have an Additional Course Fee of $40
Exams
If applicable, please refer to Canvas for the most updated Take Home Midterm/Final exam times. Exams are scheduled to be written on the SFU Burnaby campus at the noted time and date (unless noted as a take-home exam).
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This course outline was accurate at the time of publication but is subject to change. Please check your course details in your online delivery method, such as Canvas.
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