Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Academic Communication Skills – 20 credits
- Environmental Processes and Hazards – 20 credits
- Global Environmental Challenges – 20 credits
- Practical Fieldwork Skills – 20 credits
- Society and Place – 20 credits
- Tools for Geographical Enquiry – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Research, Fieldwork and Professional Skills – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Environmental Change – 20 credits
- Geographies of Development – 20 credits
- Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing – 20 credits
- Glaciers and Glaciation – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
- River Processes – 20 credits
- Sustainable Environmental Management – 20 credits
- Overseas Study – 60 credits
- Overseas Study Research and Fieldwork Skills – 20 credits
- Transport and Sustainability – 20 credits
- Uneven Cities, Planning and Design – 20 credits
Optional placement year
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Dissertation – 40 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Climate Change – 20 credits
- Coastal Recreation - Planning and Management – 20 credits
- Cold Environments – 20 credits
- Creative Economy and Urban Placemaking – 20 credits
- Conservation Biogeography – 20 credits
- Environment and Society – 20 credits
- Environment Assessment and Management – 20 credits
- Environmental Pollution and Waste Management – 20 credits
- Hazardscapes – 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
- Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology – 20 credits
- The Green Economy – 20 credits
- Weather Science – 20 credits
