Geography and Planning BA Honours (LK74)

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

• GEO1010 Interconnected World
• GEO1018 Geographical Analysis
• GEO1015 Contemporary Human Geography of the UK
• TCP1014 Planning Processes
• TCP1027 Shaping Towns and Cities
• TCP1019 Economics of Development I
• TCP1028 Disciplinary and Professional Perspectives on Planning

• TCP2027 Research skills

You choose 100 credits of modules from the lists below. You are advised to select 60 credits from semester 1 and 40 from semester 2 in order to give a 60/60 credit balance.

You must select a minimum of 40 credits from the following Geography modules:

• GEO2047 Political Geography
• GEO2099 Economic Geography
• GEO2103 Globalisation, Culture and Development
• GEO2110 Social Geographies
• GEO2226 Glacial Environments

You must select a minimum of 40 credits from the following Planning modules:

• TCP2005 Housing Policy
• TCP2023 Understanding Sustainable Development
• TCP2025 Researching Local Economies
• TCP2028 Understanding Cities
• TCP2030 Urban Poverty: A Global Perspective
• TCP2031 Digital Civics - Participatory Design for New Directions in City Planning

You may select the following module:

• NCL2007 Career Development for Second Year Students

• TCP3099 Dissertation

You choose 80 credits of modules from the following list. You are advised to select 40 credits each semester in order to give a 60/60 credit balance.

You must select 40 credits from the following Geography modules (to follow some of these modules you are required to have followed certain modules at Stage 2):

• GEO3134 Geographies of Sustainability
• GEO3102 Geopolitics
• GEO3063 Militarism: Space and Society
• GEO3139 Geographies of Mobility and Communications
• GEO3108 International and Historical Perspectives on Race
• GEO3114 Local and Regional Development
• GEO3125 Caribbean Societies: Development, Voice and the Everyday
• GEO3141 Cities of the Global South
• GEO3135 Geographies of Gender and Generation
• GEO3132 Climate Change Debate: Science, Politics and Public Views
• GEO3146 Geographies of Working Lives

You must select 40 credits from the following Planning modules:

• TCP3054 Planning Theory and Politics
• TCP3053 Development Management
• TCP3049 Skills for Planning Strategies
• TCP3052 Strategies into Action (only if you have previously taken TCP3049 Skills for Planning Strategies)
• TCP3055 Erasmus Exchange

If you did not take NCL2007 in Stage 2, you may take the following in place of a Stage 3 option from a subject you took 60 credits from in Stage 2:

• NCL3007 Career Development for Final Year Students

Our graduates’ excellent employment record is a sign of the flexibility and professionalism that our geography degrees develop.

The range of skills that geographers acquire is much sought after by employers, and our graduates therefore have access to a wide variety of careers.

Our degrees provide experience of a host of general skills including written and oral presentation, teamwork, problem solving, numeracy, computing, graphics, mapping, survey methods and research skills.

Geographers are adaptable, and their broad understanding and range of approaches to the world and its problems are relevant to many different jobs.

Many of our graduates enter careers in recruitment, marketing, PR, insurance, research, and business management, as well as in the not-for-profit sector. Others continue their studies in areas including real estate, town planning and education.

Find out more about the career options for Geography from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.