Geography BA (Hons)

Bachelor's degree

In Birmingham

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Birmingham

Our Geography BA/BSc programmes are among the most flexible anywhere, so if you are interested in both human and physical geography, you can pick and choose your modules to focus on the human side, physical side or the interactions between the two.

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Location

Start date

Birmingham (West Midlands)
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Birmingham B15 2TT

Start date

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This centre's achievements

2020

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Subjects

  • Climate
  • Systems
  • Global

Course programme

All module options are available to both BA and BSc students.

First year

The modular structure allows you maximum flexibility in developing your own interests without channeling you into decisive choices too early. In the first year you will study issues crucial to the shape of the world and our place within it, such as natural hazards, landslides, floods, global environmental change and cultural landscapes, as well as contemporary urban issues using Birmingham as a real-world laboratory. There are also fieldtrips to the likes of Ironbridge and the Lake District.

Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Contemporary Human Geography
  • Global Environmental Issues
  • Environmental Research Frontiers
  • Research methods, field work, and data analysis
  • Tutorials and Study Skills for Geographers
  • Widening Horizons Module
  • Statistical Methods and Applied Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Second year

The second year will provide you with deeper subject knowledge in areas of your choice. You will be introduced to specialist techniques such as computer cartography and the use of databases. You will also learn how to develop a research proposal, which may be the starting point for your dissertation in the final year. Training in more advanced fieldwork skills is provided by courses held in European centres.

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Research Methods for Fieldwork
  • Statistical Methods and Applied Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • Dissertation, Labs and Fieldwork: Theory and Practice
  • Research Methods for Human Geography
  • Research Labs and Fieldwork: Theory and Practice
  • Research Methods for Fieldwork

Optional modules - Example optional modules may include:

  • Geomorphology and Palaeoenvironments
  • Catchment Water and Soil Management
  • Ecological Systems
  • Hydroclimatology: Climate and Water
  • Geological Natural Hazards
  • Social Geographies
  • Political Geographies (Sovereignties in a Changing World)
  • Cultural Geographies
  • Development Geographies
  • Urban Policy Design and Planning Analysis
  • City Challenges and Policy Responses
Third year

In your final year you select from a wide range of modules that provide more specialised knowledge and skills in the areas of Geography that appeal to you. You also undertake a supervised dissertation on a topic of your own choice.

Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Geography Research

Optional modules - Example optional modules may include:

  • Advanced Fieldwork Research
  • Urban Environments in the Global South
  • Geography in the Classroom
  • Applied Micrometeorology
  • Climates of the Past
  • Cities and Conflict
  • Environment and Landscape Change
  • Environmental Governance
  • Environmental Protection
  • Landscape and Urban Ecology
  • Professional Placement for Geographers
  • River Processes, Deposits and Environments
  • Weather, Climate and Society
  • Restoration of Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Carceral Geographies
  • Welfare, Work and Wealth
  • War and Peace in the Middle East
  • Environmental Justice
  • Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Management
  • Wetland Environments
  • Alternative Economies
  • Understanding Nature-Society Relations: the Ecological Century
  • Cultural Geographies of Development
  • Network Geographies
  • Geographies of Children and Young People
  • Conservation Practice: Genes to Ecosystems
  • Russia in a Global Context
  • Gender, body & performance
  • Palaeoclimates
  • Climate change in the Earth System
  • Environmental Management: Theory, Policy, Practice
  • Pollution impacts and waste management
  • Professional Placement for Environmental Scientists and Physical Geographers
  • The political economy of agrarian change in the Global South
  • Extractive Politics

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.

Geography BA (Hons)

Price on request