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BA/BSc (Honours) Geography

Course summary

The BA/BSc Geography course introduces you to a wide range of topics, before allowing you to tailor the course to your interests. You’ll begin on an identical course structure in the first year of human and physical geography. You’ll then specialise in human or physical geography, or a combination of both, in your second and final years.

How you learn

You learn through:

• Fieldwork
• Lectures and seminars
• Tutorials and workshops
• Work experience and professional placements
• Laboratory classes
• IT sessions
• Residential field trips
• Group debates
• Case studies

Modules

Year 1

• Approaches To Human Geography (20 credits)
  • This module explores the contested nature of the origins and development of human geography from the historical to the contemporary period, and how the discipline’s various approaches to knowing and understanding the world addresses societal change and problems.
• Climate Change And Sustainability For Geographers (20 credits)
  • To introduce you to approaches to sustainability in the complex and dynamic interactions between societies and environments. You will also start to develop an understanding of the drivers of change in environments over space and time, including the interactions between climate, ecosystems and landscapes.
• Planet Earth (20 credits)
  • To explore a wide range of physical processes, how they have shaped, and continue to shape, landscapes and environments across the world, as well as the interactions between humans and the landscape.
• Professional Geographer (60 credits)
  • This module will enable you to develop geographical techniques and professional skills which build a foundation for your future studies and career.

Year 2

• Fieldwork And Gis For Global Challenges (40 credits)
  • To use fieldwork and spatial research toolkits to explore a range of global challenges in distinct geographical contexts.
• Geographical Research And Practice (40 credits)
  • This module equips you with the insight and ability to design and undertake independent research and professional experience.
• Geographies For A Just Future (20 credits)
  • To develop inclusive and interdisciplinary understandings of the physical and human dimensions of both small-scale energy and water management approaches and the social and political geography of access to energy and water at local and global scales.

Year 3

• Placement (no credits)
  • The aim of this module is to enhance students’ professional development through the completion of and reflection on meaningful work placement(s).
• Dissertation, Employability, And Communication (60 credits)
  • This module will enable you to further develop your research skills and apply these in both academic and professional contexts.
• Elective modules (20 credits each)
  • Development And The Global South
  • Geographies Of Everyday Life And Gis
  • Glaciology And Gis
  • Living With Hazard And Risk
  • Nature And Society
  • Planning Sustainable Cities

Future careers

This course prepares you for a wide range of career choices in the fields of:

• Education and teaching
• Planning and housing
• Environmental and ecological consultancies
• Water, energy and other utility companies
• Logistics
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Data analysis
• Local and national government
• Non-governmental organisations
• Finance and accountancy
• Market research
• Travel, tourism and retail
• Further study and research

Equipment and facilities

We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.

On this course you will have access to:

• Various cutting-edge industry-standard software packages and technology, including Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• A bespoke resources room
• A wide range of technical laboratory equipment supported by our team of technicians
• A range of field equipment – from those related to photography and film production to those used in activities like surveying, soil analysis and hydrological studies – including differential GPS, total stations, drones, ground penetrating radar, water velocity meters, water quality testing equipment, coring equipment and magnetometers

Where will I study?

You study at City Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.

Entry requirements

• UCAS points: 112-120
• GCSE: English Language or English Literature at grade C or 4, Mathematics at grade C or 4
• Access course: in a relevant subject from an Open College Network accredited course with 45 credits at level 3 and 15 credits at level 2
• International students: IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or equivalent

Fees and funding

• Home students: £9,535 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year)
• International students: £17,155 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year)