This course introduces contemporary socio-economic and environmental issues/processes shaping our world, and the geographical perspectives needed to understand them better.  Starting with ‘how geographers view the world’, the module offers a lens to analyse such issues as climate change, global water issues, urban flooding, human-environment relations, challenges of migration, pop-cultural diffusion, economic integration and so forth. Each lecture will start with a contemporary scenario that students are familiar with followed by geographical analyses of and approaches to the issues. The goal is to develop students with strong ‘geographical imaginations’ better able to understand the world and all its complexities in a holistic way. Part 1 of the module is Human Geography while Part 2 is Physical Geography.