Geography BSc (Hons

In the first two years of your degree (known as sub-honours) you will take the required modules in Geography alongside modules in at least one other subject in the Faculty of Science.

Typically, you will take a total of three modules per semester during your first two years, and two modules per semester during your third and fourth year

1st Year

Students will take two Geography modules in their first year.

• Welcome to the Anthropocene: Society, Population, Environment: showcases how Geography as a discipline is uniquely placed to understand our changing world.
• A World in Crisis?: explores how Geography works as a ‘world discipline’ to examine global problems from a range of human, environmental and physical geography perspectives.

Students will take two Geography modules in their second year.

• Geographies of Global Change: encourages students to think 'geographically' about particular physical and human dimensions of global change.
• (Re)constructing Environments, People and Places: explores how and why different peoples, places and bio-physical and social processes operate in both time and space.

If you decide to take Geography in your third and fourth years, you can choose to specialise in one aspect of Geography or to engage with the full, fascinating breadth of the discipline.

Here is a sample of Honours modules which have been offered in previous years:

• Advanced Debates in Geography
• Coasts and Coastal Processes
• Colonial and Postcolonial Geography
• Environmental Management
• Housing, Community and Social-Spatial Justice
• Political and Cultural Geographies of the Border
• Socio-Ecological Systems.

In fourth year, students also undertake a 10,000-word dissertation on a topic of their choice. This independent project enables you to develop key research skills which are desired by both prospective employers and by graduate schools offering postgraduate degrees.

The sub-honours modules listed here are the compulsory modules that students must take in order to graduate in this subject. However, most students at St Andrews take additional modules, either in their primary subject or from other subjects they are interested in.