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Armidale, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

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GEPL361 Retail Geography, Planning and Practice

Updated: 26 May 2011

Unit Information
Additional Information

Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2012
Intensive School(s)	None
Supervised Exam	There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites	12cp or candidature in a postgraduate award
Co-requisites	None
Restrictions	GEPL261
Notes	None
Combined Units	None
Coordinator(s)	Robert Baker (rbaker1@une.edu.au)
Unit Description	The unit aims to allow the student to appreciate the current retail environment in Australia and overseas, particularly the role of supermarket chains and property developers influencing trading hours and landuse patterns in their 'store wars' campaigns. It is divided into three modules covering retail geography, time and landuse planning, international perspectives and retail impact assessment. This unit allows for the student to study issues that interest them, such as retail design, alternative retail ideologies, disadvantaged consumers or the power of retail corporations.
Materials	Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

understand retail location and structure in both local and international contexts;
identify the social, economic and technological forces leading to changes in retailing;
understand the role and importance of retail policy in terms of trading hours and the location of new shopping centres;
experience the problems of proposed retail development assessment in terms of local government, the developer and the community.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline Students will understand the theory and issues of retail planning and be able to apply this to planning practice. This is assessed in the assessment tasks.
2	Communication Skills The students develop written skills from observations, and in the Report on a retail issue, the ability to communicate with various stakeholders identified in their issue. These skills are assessed in the assessment tasks.
3	Global Perspectives The student's study of the module on retailing in its international context (e.g. Aldi) and the forces of globalisation are considered and discussed in the unit. This is assessed in the assessment tasks.
4	Information Literacy Students will develop their skills in information literacy by the completion of their assessment tasks. Students will locate, evaluate and apply information from a variety of sources in an appropriate manner to complete the reports with a bibliography, following university guidelines.
5	Life-Long Learning The students learn to apply theory to practice as part of their professional development.
6	Problem Solving The students are involved in problem-solving, eg. in their first assignment they have to work out the reason for precinct decline or growth.
7	Social Responsibility The students study a unit on the disadvantaged consumer and can develop their interest in this field through the issues assignment.
8	Team Work On-campus students conduct practicals using group work. Off-campus students can use teamwork in discussion groups and for exam preparation.