BA Geography
Entry requirements
A level: BBC to include a Grade B in Geography or a related subject. History, English, Economics, Environmental Science, Sociology, a modern Language, Psychology, Mathematics or Biology IB: 28 points overall to include a Higher Level in Geography or related subject.
About this course
BA (Hons) Geography, combining human and environmental geography. Core topics include Programming, Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Environmental Analysis, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Local fieldwork across urban, rural and coastal environments builds practical experience, and students may undertake an optional year abroad at a partner institution. The programme includes industry-standard GIS software such as ArcGIS Pro and QGIS, and concludes with an extended Geography Dissertation involving original research.
Modules
- Exploring Critical Geographies
- Geographical Applications
- GIS and Remote Sensing
- Research Methods for the Life Sciences
- Social & Environmental Justice: A Field Perspective
- Sustainable Environments & Ecosystems
- The Earth System: Processes & Hazards
- Critical Development Studies
- Data Skills for the Environmental Sciences
- Geographical Research: Design and Practice
- Geographies of Crisis: Human Impacts on the Environment
- Geographies of Hope: Building Worlds Otherwise
- GIS Applications for Sustainable Landscapes
- Biogeography, Conservation and Planetary Health
- Hazards and Society: Field Based Enquiry
- SoG International Study Year
- Tracing Socio-environmental Change
- Climate Change: From Processes to Politics
- Geography Dissertation
- Global Processes, Global Margins
- Political Ecology
- Rethinking Nature and Society
- Advanced GIS: Planet to Pixels
- Environmental Management
- Overseas Fieldwork
- Placement (Level 3)