Geographies of Money and Finance

Code

GEOG3012

School

Geography

Level

3

Credits

20

Semesters

Autumn UK

Summary

This module explores the economic geographies of money and of contemporary pocesses of financialisation. Competing theories of money, finance and the financial services industry are explored at a variety of spatial scales including the global financial system, the UK retail financial market, the City of London and local currency systems. The following core topics are covered: 
•  Financial crisis.
•  The history and theory of money.
•  Financial services and financial intermediation.
•  Globalisation and the international financial system.
•  The City of London as international financial centre.
•  Landscapes of retail financial services.
•  Alternative and imagined landscapes of money. 
 

Target Students

Open to Final Year UG students who have successfully completed GEOG2016 Economic Geography. Available to Full Year Exchange students and Masters in Social Science Research (Geography) students where the module was not taken at UG level (subject to timetabling considerations and pathway lead approval).

Co-requisites

Modules you must take in the same academic year, or have taken in a previous year, to enrol in this module:

• Economic Geography (GEOG2016)

Classes

Teaching will take place through a mixture of lectures and seminars.

Assessment

• 40% Coursework 1: 1,500 words
• 60% Coursework 2: 2,500 words

Assessed by end of autumn semester

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

a. Knowledge and understanding

●    Demonstrate comprehension of the changing nature of geographies of money and finance.  
●    Demonstrate comprehension of the significance of spatial relationships as influences upon processes of financial and monetary relations  
●    Demonstrate comprehension of the diversity and interdependence of places of finance and of money at various spatial scales.  
●    Evaluate the diversity of approaches to the generation of epistemologies of money and finance.  
●    Apply understandings of concepts and theories of money and finance within different contexts. 

b. Intellectual Skills

●    Illustrate and discuss the contested and provisional nature of knowledge and understanding in the fields of money and finance.  
●    Synthesise information and recognise relevance.  
●    Develop a sustained and reasoned argument.  
●    Evaluate and articulate weaknesses in the arguments of others.  
●    Articulate and communicate personal views about issues of money and finance.

c. Professional Practical Skills

●    Evaluate the diversity of specialised techniques and approaches involved in collecting information in the fields of money and finance.  
●    Evaluate the diversity of specialised techniques and approaches involved in analysing geographical information in the fields of money and finance. 

d. Transferable Skills

●    Communicate geographical ideas, principals and theories effectively and fluently by written means.  
●    Undertake independent/ self-directed study/ learning to achieve consistent, proficient and sustained attainments.  
●    Reflect on the process of learning and evaluate strengths and weaknesses

Conveners

• Dr Shaun French