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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Geography
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Nufar Avni
Coordinator Office Hours:
2nd semester
Tuesday 15:00 – 16:00
Room 4616 (Faculty of social science)
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nufar Avni
Course/Module description:
Topics to be discussed in the course are geopolitics,
Imperialism, Territorialism. National state, the global system
Political world Geography of elections and basic aspects of Geography
Urban politics.
Course/Module aims:
Provide tools and knowledge in strategic thinking and geopolitics risks in the global and local geography
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
-Identify a number of key figures in debates concerning geopolitical theories and strategies
-Understand a number of the main issues of potential geopolitical conflict in the 21st century
-Analyze the geopolitical options open to several world countries
-Evaluate the material, ethical and political dimensions open to individual states
-Work through empirical examples of interconnections between people, places and space
Attendance requirements(%):
80
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture
Course/Module Content:
1. Nature of political geography
2. The rise (and fall?) of the nation state
3.Nationalism and its spatiality
4. The state and its components
5.Borders and Israel's geopolitical dilemma
6. Geopolitics and Climate Change
7. New cities
8. Divided Cities: Jerusalem and international experience
9. Nation-state formation
10. The frontier and the border
11. New and old minorities, diaspora and immigrants
Required Reading:
To be updated
Additional Reading Material:
To be updated
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 70 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
None
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