Under Graduate Degree | Year module | NQF level: 7 | Credits: 12 |
Module presented in English | Module presented online | ||
Pre-requisite: GGH2607 or GGH3703, and GGH2608 | Co-requisite: GGH3710 | ||
Purpose: of this module is to provide students with opportunities to demonstrate and apply their spatial analytical knowledge and skills to solve real-world spatial problems in different geographical contexts. Students will be required to select a project from a list of pre-developed options to investigate a real-world spatial problem in either human geography, physical geography, environmental geography or environmental management. Students will be expected to identify and collect data sets needed for the project and will be responsibe for the management and analysis of the data. After the successful completion of this module, students will be able to compile a report based on the results of the project, which demonstrates communication skills in the application of relevant competencies applied in spatial analytics. Students are required to have a smart phone and a computer to do this module. The minimum specifications of the smart phone are as follows: IOS Android 9 or latest, GPS enabled (location technology); At least 500MB RAM and 1GB available device storage; At least 1.4GHz CPU speed for the Processor; The minimum requirements of the computer (desktop or laptop) are as follows: 4GB RAM, 2.4 GHz processor, At least 8GB available internal storage, 32-bit operating system (preferably, 64-bit). |