Minimum Grade Requirement: 

Grade 6 in Geography and Grade 6 in English Language

 

Assessment:

External examination at the end of the course.

Course Overview

The course offers an issues-based approach to studying geography, enabling students to explore and evaluate contemporary geographical questions and issues such as the consequences of globalisation, responses to hazards, water insecurity and climate change.  You will become familiar with recognising and analysing the complexity of people and environmental interactions at all geographical scales, and appreciate how they underpin understanding some of the key issues facing the world today.

The Course consists of the following modules:

Module 1 Dynamic Landscapes: Tectonic Processes and Hazards, Landscape Systems and Processes and Change

Module 2 Dynamic Places: Globalisation and Shaping Places

Module 3 Physical Systems and Sustainability: The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity, The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security

Module 4 Human Systems and Geopolitics: Superpowers, Global Development and Connections

Fieldwork is an important part of the subject.  In the past students have visited Snowdonia to gather data and investigate fluvial and glacial landscapes and major UK cities to investigate urban issues.

As part of the course students are required to carry out independent investigation that involves (but which need not be restricted to) fieldwork.  This forms part of the non-examination based assessment.

“What is knowledge worth if we know nothing about the world that sustains us, nothing about natural systems and climate, and nothing about countries and cultures?”
Jonathan Poritt – environmentalist.

“What is knowledge worth if we know nothing about the world that sustains us, nothing about natural systems and climate, and nothing about countries and cultures?”

^{Jonathan Poritt, Environmentalist}

Future Opportunities

The skills that are used in Geography make students of potential interest to a variety of employers.  The close links between the subject and the world around us makes for a long and varied list of career choices. Students have gone on to study a variety of courses at university.  These include Human and Physical Geography, Earth Sciences and Computing, Construction Management, Geological Science and Town Planning.

Complementary Subjects

English, Maths, Politics and Sciences.