BA Geography (Study Abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: ABB. We recommend that this includes Geography, or alternatively you should have one of the following subjects: Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Economics, English Literature, Environmental Studies, Geology, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology. IB: 32 points overall with 16 points from the best 3 HL subjects including Geography or alternative cognate subject at HL grade 6
About this course
BA Hons in Geography (Study Abroad), a geography degree situated in the field of Geography. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Environmental Analysis, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Human Behaviour, and Design & Creative Practice. The third year is spent studying abroad at an approved international partner university, and the final year includes an independent research dissertation. The first year covers core foundations through Foundation Skills for LEC, Global Human Geography, Introducing Research in Geography, Reading the Landscape, and Society and Place. The second year focuses on Geographical Data Science alongside optional modules spanning atmospheric science, ecology, and political geography. In the final year, students complete a dissertation alongside optional modules addressing contemporary challenges in urban areas, environmental management, and sustainability. Optional choices across the course allow study in areas such as climate science, biodiversity, conservation, and policy analysis.
Modules
- Foundation Skills for LEC
- Global Human Geography
- Introducing Research in Geography
- Reading the Landscape
- Society and Place
- Atmosphere, Weather and Climate
- Biodiversity and Global Change
- Policy Lab
- Political Theory for a Troubled World
- Geographical Data Science
- Atmospheric Science
- Cultural and Social Geography
- Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental Geography
- Geography, Development and the Majority World
- Glaciology
- Living with the Landscape
- Political and Economic Geography
- Sustainable Hebrides: Field Course
- Study Abroad
- Dissertation
- Challenging Cities in the 21st Century
- Creative Geographies: Place, Space and the Geographies of Imagination
- Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
- Eco-Innovation for Sustainable Development
- Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century
- Geographies of Transformation in the Global South
- Governing Socio-Ecological Systems in Tropical Asia Field Course
- Interdisciplinary Conservation Science
- Managing the Energy Transition
- Political Ecology
- Spatial Data Analysis
- Teaching, Outreach and Public Engagement
- The Politics of Urban Futures: Field Course