B.Sc. Geography
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All you have to do, is go out there and you'll land on your feet. Scottish people are very nice and helpful, the area is beautiful and it was great to experience a semester at a Scottish university. Thanks for the same.
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Bachelor's degree
In Edinburgh
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Edinburgh (Scotland)
Geography is the study of the way the world works. It is a uniquely diverse and integrative discipline that spans the natural and social sciences. As a natural science, Geography focuses on the environment, mainly through landscapes and their evolution through space and time. As a social science, Geography is concerned with the relationships between people and their social, cultural, political and economic worlds. In both cases, the relationships between human and physical environments are central.
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All you have to do, is go out there and you'll land on your feet. Scottish people are very nice and helpful, the area is beautiful and it was great to experience a semester at a Scottish university. Thanks for the same.
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Mélanie Delpech
Subjects
- Physical Geography
- Human Geography
- IT Development
- Climate
- Social Science
Course programme
You will study the compulsory courses Human Geography and Physical Geography, which introduce key geographic ideas. They focus on global economic, social and environmental problems and change.
You can also choose courses from other academic areas and although BSc students are encouraged to choose science-based subjects, and MA students to take social science subjects, there is room for flexibility.
Year 2You will take a Fundamental Geographical Methods. You can also choose to study Economic & Political Geography, Environmental Sensitivity & Change, Social & Cultural Geography and Geomorphology, plus one other course. Alternatively you can choose a minimum of two geography courses and three others.
Year 3You will take courses that explore the nature of geographical knowledge and methodology together with courses that develop skills in research and analysis. Fieldwork in Istanbul, the Netherlands and Wales is offered. This provides an introduction to a range of research methods.
You will complete two option courses drawn from a wide selection related to staff research. You will also choose a topic for your dissertation and submit your research plan.
Year 4In addition to writing your dissertation, you will take Visions for Geography, choose one course from a choice of research options, including fieldwork opportunities in Iceland, the Western Isles of Scotland or the Scottish Highlands, and take two further honours option courses related to staff research.
Courses include:
- Geography in the Archive
- Physical Geography Fieldwork: Iceland
- Human Geography Fieldwork: Journey to the Western Isles
- Researching with media: ordinary, popular and indigenous people's knowledges
- Catchment Water Resources
- Cinematic Cities
- Development and Decolonization in Latin America
- Divided Cities
- Ecosystem Processes, Biodiversity and Climate Change
- Encountering Cities
- Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers
- Frontiers in Human Geography
- Frontiers in Human Geography: Geographies of Development and Socionature
- Frontiers in Physical Geography
- Geographies of Food
- Geographies of the Sea
- Geography Dissertation
- Geography Dissertation in Sustainable Development
- Geography in the Archive
- Geography of Wine
- Geography, Science, Civil Society
- Glacial Processes and Geomorphology
- Historical Geographies of Geographical Knowledge
- Historical Geographies of Science
- Human Geography Fieldwork: Journey to the Western Isles
- Ice and Climate
- Landscape Dynamics - techniques and applications
- Minorities in Multicultural Society
- People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years
- Physical Geography Fieldwork: Iceland
- Physical Geography Fieldwork: Scottish Highlands
- Political Ecology
- Political Geography
- Principles of Geographical Information Science
- Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change
- Researching with media: ordinary, popular and indigenous people's knowledges
- Space, place and sensory perception
- The Geography of Health
- Understanding the City: Marginality and Division
- Values and the Environment
- Volcanoes, Environment and People
- Writing Landscape
B.Sc. Geography