BA Human Geography (Study Abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: ABB. 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: 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 Human Geography (Study Abroad), a geography degree examining the spatial relationships between human societies and their environments. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Entrepreneurship, and Design & Creative Practice. Students spend the third year studying abroad at an approved international partner institution and complete an independent research dissertation in the final year. The first year introduces core geographical concepts through Foundation Skills for LEC, Global Human Geography, Introducing Research in Geography, and Society and Place. The second year advances spatial investigations with Cultural and Social Geography, Geographical Data Science, Geography, Development and the Majority World, Human Geography in Practice, and Political and Economic Geography. The final year centres on the Dissertation module alongside optional modules addressing contemporary urban, environmental, and health 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
- Study Abroad
- 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