How do geographers go about addressing the challenges and problems of the world? What does it mean to think, speak, write and research 'geographically'? Consistent with current emphasis in critical geography, all geographers are using both theory and politics in their work. Thinking carefully about these issues helps to understand the relationship between scholarship (geographical or otherwise) and the "real world," while at the same time facilitating reflexive and careful consideration of research topics and approaches. This is not a survey course that will exhaustively introduce you to all 'key debates,' past and present, in the discipline. Rather, drawing on a range of diverse approaches spanning cultural, political, urban, and economic geography and beyond, this course will introduce students to a diverse range of questions geographers have posed and how they have sought to answer them by combining geographical theory, methods, and praxis.