Geography and Urban and Regional Planning BSc (Hons)

Year 1

• Contemporary Human Geography
• Tutorials and Study Skills for Geographers
• Planning of the Built Environment
• Society, Space and Policy
• Economy, Space and Policy
• Planning in Action
• Environmental Research Frontiers
• Research Methods for Planners

Compulsory modules

• Techniques and Fieldwork
• Statistical Methods and Applied Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Urban Policy Design and Planning Analysis
• City Challenges and Policy Responses

Optional modules - Example optional modules may include:

• Hydroclimatology: Climate and Water
• Ecological Systems
• Geomorphology and Palaeoenvironments
• Social Geographies
• Political Geographies (Sovereignties in a Changing World)

Compulsory modules

• Geography or Planning Research
• Contemporary Issues in Urban Development and Planning
• Regenerating Urban Communities

Optional modules - Example optional modules may include:

• Climates of the Past
• Environment and Landscape Change
• Wetland Environments
• Weather Climate and Society
• Restoration of Freshwater Ecosystems
• Landscape and Urban Ecology
• Applied Micrometeorology
• Biodiversity and Conservation Management
• Professional Placement for Geographers
• War and Peace in the Middle East
• Environmental Justice
• Environmental Protection
• Environmental Governance
• Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
• River Processes, Deposits and Environments
• Welfare, Work and Wealth
• Network Geographies
• Gender, body and performance
• Environmental Management: Theory, Policy, Practice
• Pollution impacts and waste management

Please note: The modules listed on the website for this programme are regularly reviewed to ensure they are up-to-date and informed by the latest research and teaching methods. Unless indicated otherwise, the modules listed for this programme are for students starting in 2020. On rare occasions, we may need to make unexpected changes to compulsory modules after that date; in this event we will contact offer holders as soon as possible to inform or consult them as appropriate.