6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1015379BNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
The course focuses on the relationship between political and economic processes from a historical and contemporary perspective. The first more historically-inclined part offers a world-systems-analytic framework to interpret interstatal processes as a spatio-temporal dynamic of the capitalist world economy. We focus on themes such as geopolitics, (de)colonization, and nation-state-formation. The second part of the course offers a more economic-geographical perspective on contemporary globalization processes with attention to theory and empirical analysis of uneven development on a global scale. Special attention is paid to processes of industrial offshoring and the emergence of global financial markets and their impact on national and regional economies.
Students get powerpoint slides for each session.
Two following two handbooks are used:
Flint, C., Taylor, P.J. (2011) Political Geography: World-Economy, Nation-State and Locality (6th edition), Prentice Hall, Harlow, UK
Coe, N.M., Kelly, F.K., Yeung, H.W.C. (2013) Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction (2nd edition), Wiley, Hoboken, US.
By the end of this course you should be able to:
Explain historical and contemporary political-economic processes in a global perspective
Understand cyclicity and continuity in the world-system as spatio-temporal changes in the capitalist world economy
Grasp classical and critical political-economic paradigms and how they explain uneven development
Be sensitive to the tension between territorially-organized state power and transnationally-organized economic processes under conditions of globalization
Critically deal with empirical case studies and available (online) data sources pertaining to economic development
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
PRAC Presentation determines 20% of the final mark.
PRAC Report determines 20% of the final mark.
Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the PRAC Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Within the PRAC Report category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Final written exam and permanent evaluation based on two assignments. Partial grades for each of the assignments are transferred to the resit period and to the next academic year if the student gets 10/20. Partial grades cannot be relinquished.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Social Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Profile Cultural Studies (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Adult Education: Initial track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Geography: Default track (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Political Science and Sociology: - afstudeerrichting sociologie, minor sociale geografie (only offered in Dutch)