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IGCSE Geography Course
GCSE
Distance
Description
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Type
GCSE
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Methodology
Distance Learning
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Class hours
300h
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Duration
Flexible
Home based distance learning. This IGCSE can be completed from home with full support for a maximum of 2 years.
About this course
To further students interest in this specific area or those looking move into further education..
Aimed at students looking to resit or be home schooled.
Students looking to enrol onto this course should meet the following criteria: Be aged 14 Years or above, possess a solid knowledge of the english language, have access to a PC and the internet for the duration of the whole course, basic computer skills: e.g Word processing, emailing, uploading documents etc
Students are able to enrol online at any time of the year. No specific enrolment dates.
Once your information is received one of our course advisers will provide you with further information via email or telephone.
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Subjects
- Decision Making
- Evaluation
- IT
- Geographical Information Systems
- Collecting
- Appreciation
- Global
- Systems
- IGCSE
- Political and social issues
Teachers and trainers (1)
Allocated Upon Enrolment
Tutor
Course programme
Candidates should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
The wide range of processes, including human actions, contributing to the development of
1. (a) physical, economic, social, political and cultural environments and their associated effects on the
landscape;
(b) spatial patterns and interactions which are important within these environments;
2. the inter-relationships between people’s activities and the total environment and an ability to seek
explanations for them;
3. the importance of scale (whether local, regional or global) and the time at which spatial distributions and
the working of systems are considered;
4. the changes which occur through time in places, landscapes and spatial
Candidates should be able to:
5. analyse and interpret geographical data;
6. use and apply geographical knowledge and understanding to maps and in verbal, numerical,
diagrammatic, pictorial, photographic and graphical form;
7. use geographical data to recognise patterns in such data and to deduce relationships;
8. select and show understanding of techniques for observing and collecting data;
9. select and use techniques for organising and presenting data
AO3 Judgement and decision making
Through their geographical training candidates should be able to:
10. reason, make judgements (including evaluation and conclusions) which demonstrate, where appropriate
(a) a sensitivity to, and a concern for, landscape, the environment and the need for sustainable
development;
(b) an aesthetic appreciation of the earth including its people, places, landscapes, natural processes and
phenomena;
(c) an appreciation of the attitudes, values and beliefs of others in cultural, economic, environmental,
political and social issues which have a geographical dimension;
(d) an awareness of the contrasting opportunities and constraints of people living in different places and
under different physical and human conditions;
(e) a willingness to review their own attitudes in the light of new knowledge and experiences;
11. recognise the role of decision making within a geographical context as affected by
(a) the physical and human contexts in which decisions are made;
(b) the values and perceptions of groups or individuals;
(c) the choices available to decision makers and the influences and constraints within which they
operate;
(d) the increasing level of global interdependence.
Additional information
IGCSE Geography Course