BA Human Geography (Placement Year)
Entry requirements
A level: BBB. We recommend that this includes Geography, or alternatively you should have one of the following subjects: Classics, Economics, English Literature, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology. IB: 30 points overall with 15 points from the best 3 HL subjects including Geography or alternative cognate subject at HL grade 6
About this course
BA Hons in Human Geography (Placement Year), a geography degree examining the dynamic relationships between human societies and their surrounding environments. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Entrepreneurship, and Design & Creative Practice. The course includes a dedicated third-year industry placement year and a final-year independent research dissertation. The first year introduces foundational themes through modules such as Global Human Geography, Introducing Research in Geography, Society and Place, and Foundation Skills for LEC. The second year builds competence in spatial and social investigations with modules like Cultural and Social Geography, Geographical Data Science, Geography, Development and the Majority World, Human Geography in Practice, and Political and Economic Geography. Optional modules and field courses cover various specialised geographic themes. The final year centres on the completion of the dissertation alongside advanced optional modules addressing contemporary environmental and urban challenges.
Modules
- Foundation Skills for LEC
- Global Human Geography
- Introducing Research in Geography
- Society and Place
- Global Challenges in World Politics
- Parties, Populism and Protest
- Policy Lab
- Political Theory for a Troubled World
- Cultural and Social Geography
- Geographical Data Science
- Geography, Development and the Majority World
- Human Geography in Practice
- Political and Economic Geography
- Environmental Geography
- Sustainable Hebrides: Field Course
- Placement
- Dissertation
- Challenging Cities in the 21st Century
- Creative Geographies: Place, Space and the Geographies of Imagination
- 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
- Health Geographies
- Managing the Energy Transition
- Political Ecology
- Spatial Data Analysis
- Teaching, Outreach and Public Engagement
- The Politics of Urban Futures: Field Course