BSc Geography and Urban and Regional Planning with Year Abroad
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB. IB: 6,5,5 32 points overall.. BTEC: We welcome students studying BTEC qualifications as an alternative to A levels, and accept BTEC Extended Diploma, Diploma and Extended Certificate. Please contact us for further guidance.
About this course
Bachelor of Science in Geography and Urban and Regional Planning with Year Abroad BSc, a planning, property and environmental management and geography degree focused on spatial dynamics and environmental systems. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork. Students spend the third year studying abroad at an international exchange partner institution. The first year covers environmental systems, academic futures, and planning fundamentals through modules such as LC Connected Earth: Environmental Systems and Change, LC Fieldwork: Principles and Practice, LC Planning for the Built Environment, and LC Research Design for Geographers and Planners. The second year advances spatial analysis, urban policy, and practical skills through compulsory and optional modules like LI Dissertation Labs for Human Geography and Planning, LI Field Research Skills for Human Geography and Planning, LI Skills for Planners: Planning Practice Studio, and LI Urban Policy Design and Planning Analysis. The third year is spent studying abroad. Optional modules across the stages span cultural geographies, development geographies, political geographies, ecological systems, environmental pollution and management, and hydrology and river management.
Modules
- LC Connected Earth: Environmental Systems and Change
- LC Discover Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES): Academic and Professional Futures
- LC Fieldwork: Principles and Practice
- LC Planning for the Built Environment
- LC Research Design for Geographers and Planners
- LC Societies, Space and Place
- LI Dissertation Labs for Human Geography and Planning
- LI Field Research Skills for Human Geography and Planning
- LI Skills for Planners: Planning Practice Studio
- LI Urban Policy Design and Planning Analysis
- LI Critical Issues for 21st Century Ecosystems
- LI Cultural Geographies
- LI Development Geographies
- LI Digital data capture and analysis
- LI Ecological Systems
- LI Environmental Human Geography
- LI Environmental Pollution and Management
- LI Hydroclimatology: Climate and Water
- LI Hydrology and River Management
- LI Political Geographies
- LI Social Geographies
- LI Urban Geography
- LI Study Abroad (Geography)