The purpose of this module is to stimulate an interest in and a sense of wonder about places. As the module name suggests, the main emphasis is the key concept of place, developing students’ ‘geographical imaginations’ of places at a variety of scales and understanding the physical and human characteristics of them. The key concept of space, knowing where places and landscapes studied are located and why they are there – in terms the physical and human processes that have created, changed and sustained them – is a concomitant to any study of place.
