Geography-BA

• Human Geography: Space and Place in a Changing World
• Introduction to Geographical Research (BA)
• Physical Geography.

Choose two optional modules from:

• Environment and Society
• Geographies of Crisis
• Understanding Earth’s Challenges
• Module(s) offered by another department, subject to approval.

• Social Research in Geography (includes compulsory residential fieldwork in the UK)
• Theory and Concepts in Contemporary Human Geography.

These form the required foundation for your Dissertation in the third year.

Choose three modules (the modules may vary from year to year but this is typical of the range):

• Environmental Processes and Governance
• Geographies of Development
• Political Geography
• Social and Cultural Geography
• Urban Geography
• Economic Geography
• Climate Change: Geographical Perspectives
• One module from the BSc list or from another department (with permission and subject to timetables).

• Dissertation (individual Research Project).

(the modules may vary from year to year but this is typical of the range):

• Urban Change in Europe (Berlin fieldtrip)
• The Arctic (Norway fieldtrip)
• Territory and Geopolitics (Jerisalem fieldtrip)
• Geographies of Energy Transition (Cape Town fieldtrip)
• Geographies of Difference and Identity
• People, Participation and Place
• Politics/Space– Drawing Lines, Writing the World
• Philosophy and Geography
• Natural Hazards in a Vulnerable World.

• Cities and the Governing of Climate change
• Post-colonialism and Development
• Spaces of Health and Well-Being
• Everyday Economies
• Waterworlds and Wellbeing
• Geographyies of Everyday Life
• Geographies of Contemporary Unfree Labour
• Geographies of Memory: Power, Place, Identities
• Geographies of Money and Finance
• Urban Governance.

You will have the opportunity to study abroad during second year where we have exchange programmes and this can be a rewarding experience that is highly valued by employers. The latest information is as follows:

• National University of Singapore
• University of British Columbia
• Queen's University, Canada
• University of Otago, New Zealand.