Development Geography examines patterns and situations of human well-being in developing societies, with a focus on an integrated understanding of the causes and consequences of inequality across time and space.
Development continues to be one of the great challenges of our time and many have critiqued its processes. We ask how approaches to development might be re-imagined to achieve more just and sustainable outcomes.
Subjects in the Development Geography Pathway explore development in practice, critical geographies of development, social and cultural change and difference, and the political ecology of resources and environment.
Skills associated with this pathway
Graduates of the Development Geography Pathway will gain skills in development practice and policy analysis, social science research methods, critical thinking and writing.
Recommended course structure
Pathways are designed to help students identify geography subjects focused on a specific theme. Pathways are not formal degrees or qualifications, rather they are recommended groupings of similar or related subjects that students may choose to enrol in if they wish to develop an expertise in a specific topic of interest, or to build a particular skill base for their preferred career path.
Study timeline
- Undergraduate
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First year
GEOG10001: Famine: the geography of scarcity
GEOG10003: Global youth
UNIB10007: Introduction to Climate Change -
Second year
GEOG20011: Global inequalities in the Anthropocene
GEOG20012: Post-conflict development and difference
GEOG20010: China in transition
GEOG20003: Environmental politics and management
GEOG20013: Health Geography
GEOG20016: Fertility, Mortality and Social Change
GEOG20017: Spatial Analysis in Geography
GEOG20018 India: Politics and Society -
Third year
GEOG30019: Sustainable development
GEOG30007: China field class
GEOG30026: East Timor field class
GEOG30021: The disaster resilient city
GEOG30024: Africa: environment, development, people
GEOG30029: Geographies of Migration
GEOG30031: Law Space: Geographies of Justice - Graduate
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Further study or research
Specialized study