BA Geography with Professional Placement
Entry requirements
A level: AAB
About this course
BA in Geography, examining human and physical systems. Core topics include Research Methods and Fieldwork. Students complete fieldwork in locations such as the Lake District, the Pyrenees, Morocco, Crete, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Prague. The programme offers an optional full-year work placement with organisations including the Environment Agency, Siemens, and Transport for London.
Modules
- Key Concepts in Geography
- Introducing Human Geographies 1
- Researching Manchester
- Environmental Processes and Change: The Global System
- Dynamic Earth
- Introducing Human Geographies 2
- First Year Advisor - Talk
- Tutorials and Critical Book Review
- Tutorials and Profile of a Research Geographer
- Geographies of Globalisation
- Environmental Pollution
- Introduction to GIS
- Ice Age Britain
- Creating a Sustainable World: 21st Century Challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Research Design and Fieldwork
- Skills for Geographers
- Economic Geography: Understanding the economy. creating economic spaces
- Global Urban Futures
- Glaciers
- Hydrology & Catchment Systems
- Fundamentals in Sustainability
- Spatial Thinking with GIS: Constructing and exploring virtual worlds
- Transport Geographies
- Biogeography
- Moral Geographies
- Geomorphology
- Social and Cultural Geography
- Dissertation
- Mediterranean Quaternary Landscapes
- Landscape Ecology: A spatial-ecological approach
- Geographical Controversies: How To Understand and Address Complex and Contentious Issues
- Energy, Society and Space
- Life Course Geographies: Social Transformation and Intergenerational Justice
- Peatlands Under Pressure
- Geohazards in Dry Places
- Understanding GIS
- Wildlife in the Anthropocene
- Governing Urban Transformation
- De-colonising Geographies: Theory, Methods, Praxis
- Feminist Geographies of Health
- Pyrogeography: Fire in the Earth System
- Migration, Conflict and Social Change
- Digital Technology & the City