Prerequisite/Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Tofagsstuderende, der læser geografi som centralt fag, skal skrive kandidatspecialet på dansk, selvom modulbeskrivelsen er på engelsk.

Students completing the module acquire the following:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Can understand and on a scientific basis reflect on the knowledge attained within the geographical subjects studied
• Can identify scientific relevant geographical problems within the subjects studied and reflect on them.
• Knowledge of the scientific-theoretical and methodological embeddedness of the used geographical theories and can reflect on them
• Knowledge of important national and international geographical research in the field

Skills

• Can independently plan and carry out a geographical project at a high professional level
• Can assess possible theoretical and/or experimental methods for analysis of the research problem and reflect  and critically evaluate  the chosen methods
• Can make an independent and critical reflection of the chosen theories and methods as well as the analyses, results and conclusions
• Can communicate relevant scientific and professional aspects of project work in a clear and systematic way

Competences

• Can work independently with a project on a specific geographical problem at the highest international level
• Can define and analyse scientific geographical problems and based on that make and state the reasons for the decisions made
• Can solve new and complicated geographical problems by the use of advanced scientific geographical knowledge
• Can evaluate the progress of the project independently and select and include additional literature, field studies, experiments or supplementary data when needed in order to maintain a scientific basis for the project

Type of instruction

Problem-based project work with supervision supplemented with instructions, workshops, presentation seminars, lab tests, etc.

Exam

Exams