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BSc Human Geography with a Professional Placement Year

Cardiff University

Institution
Cardiff University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Geography (human) and planning
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
L701
Typical offer
A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB

About this course

BSc in Geography, covering human and physical geography perspectives. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme incorporates fieldwork and experiential learning through in-module field visits and group data collection. Students undertake a professional placement year in the third year, and the degree culminates in a supervised research dissertation involving primary geographic research.

Modules

  • The Geographical Imagination: An Introduction to Human Geography
  • Cities
  • Making Knowledge: Evidence and Practice
  • The Global Countryside
  • Living with Environmental Change
  • Border Spaces: Identities, Cultures and Politics in a Globalising World
  • Geographical Ideas
  • Developing Research Methods
  • Spaces of Production: Economic Geography
  • Political Geography: Place, Space and Power
  • Cultural Geographies: Places and Practices
  • Social Geography: Spaces of Inequality and Welfare
  • Sustainable development: Concepts, Practices and Challenges
  • Development and the Global South
  • Heritage, Regeneration and Inequality
  • Cynllunio ar gyfer Iechyd a Lles Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol
  • Professional Placement Year in Practice
  • Research Dissertation
  • Cities and Social Justice
  • Gender, Space and Place
  • Mobilities: Travel, Tourism and Communication
  • Climate Change & Environmental Governance
  • Researching Contemporary Issues in Geography and Planning
  • Geographies of Race and Power
  • Advanced Economic Geography: Local and Regional Development
  • Cyfiawnder Byd-eang