Human Geography
A graduate in Human Geography has the competences to work at a high scientific and application-oriented level with state-of-the-art knowledge on advanced social, economic and development theories. The graduate will understand globalization processes and their geographical implications from local to global scales and in spatial planning.
Knowledge about:
- Theoretical approaches to human geography and key conceptualisations of space and place including social, economic and development geography as well as humanenvironment interactions and spatial planning. There is a possibility to focus on the Global North or the Global South.
- Globalisation processes and their geographical implications from local to global scales including the dynamics of global value chains, transformation of cities, regions and landscapes, migration, urbanisation, rural-urban connections and land use change.
- The relationship between environmental change and human activity including resilience, vulnerability and adaptive processes.
- The social, political and economic processes and drivers of the location, distribution and growth of human activity
- The role of uneven geographical development including its implications for urban and regional development as well as rural and urban livelihoods.
- Spatial planning including governance and policy networks.
Skills in/to:
- Design and perform studies and research projects within the field of human geography
- Present theoretical arguments, conduct theoretical and empirical assessments and use the appropriate theories, methods and data to perform scientific analyses.
- Select appropriate quantitative and qualitative methodologies for problem-based research.
- Plan and perform field work and projects.
- Compile and analyse complex data from a variety of sources.
- Communicate results of research and projects orally and in writing
Competences in/to:
- Work at a high scientific and application-oriented level with a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches to human geography
- Work with interdisciplinary dimensions of human geographical processes and their impacts and spatial aspects at different scales.
- Work, individually and in teams, with complex problems by organizing them into manageable projects.
- Work in and understand the implications of cross-cultural contexts.
The programme can be structured in two ways, depending on the size of your thesis (45 or 60 ECTS):
Programme structure (thesis: 45 ECTS)
Compulsory courses: 15 ECTS
Restricted elective courses: 45 ECTS – see list of courses below
Elective courses: 15 ECTS
Thesis: 45 ECTS
Block 1 | Block 2 | Block 3 | Block 4 | |
Year 1 | Environment, Society and Development | Transformation of Cities and Landscapes: Globalisation and Local Strategies | Restricted elective course | Restricted elective course |
Restricted elective course | Restricted elective course | Elective course | Elective course | |
Year 2 | Restricted elective course | Thesis | ||
Restricted elective course |
Programme structure (thesis: 60 ECTS)
Compulsory courses: 15 ECTS
Restricted elective courses: 30 ECTS – see list of courses below
Elective courses: 15 ECTS
Thesis: 60 ECTS
Block 1 | Block 2 | Block 3 | Block 4 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Year 1 | Environment, Society and Development | Transformation of Cities and Landscapes: Globalisation and Local Strategies | Restricted elective course | Restricted elective course |
Restricted elective course | Restricted elective course | Elective course | Elective course | |
Year 2 | Thesis |
Restricted elective courses
Choose your restricted elective courses from the lists below. Click on each course for a detailed description.
NB: The list is based on the academic year 2020/2021 and is therefore only indicative. The final list of restricted elective courses in the academic year 2021/2022 is ready in spring 2021.
You are obliged to choose courses worth at least 15 ECTS from this list:
- Land Use Transitions in the Global South
- The Dynamics of City Regions: Social and Economic Change
- Globalisation and Dynamics in Global Value Chains
- Countryside Planning: Policies, Processes and Regulation
- International Migration - Flows, Networks and Diasporas
- Livelihoods and Rural-Urban Connections in the Global South
Choose your remaining courses from this list:
- Remote Sensing of the Bio-Geosphere
- Applied GIS and Geoinformatics for Urban Spatial Analysis
- Ecosystems, Climate and Climate Change
- Interdisciplinary Project Course
- Advanced Geoinformatics
- Spatial and Temporal Pattern Analysis
- Geopolitics of Climate Change
- Field and Methods Course in Geography and Geoinformatics (block 1+2 or block 3+4)
- Remote Sensing in Land Science Studies
- Project Management and Planning
- Thematic Course: Interdisciplinary Land Use and Natural Resource Management
- Aerial and Near-field Remote Sensing
- Programming, Customization and Automation in GIS
- Human Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Environmental Impact Assessment in a Practical Danish Context (course language: Danish)
- Project Course in Geography and Geoinformatics
- Project in Practice (course database)