Geography bsc(hons)
Bachelor's degree
In Brighton and Hove
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Brighton and hove
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Duration
3 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
Our accredited Geography BSc(Hons) examines crucial contemporary issues such as the impacts of climate and environmental change, and global sustainability, which are central to the study of geography.
Focused on physical and environmental geography, the course also covers some elements of human geography featured on our BA(Hons) to give you a broad foundation in the subject.
The course also develops your employability, transferable skills and practical learning through a combination of geographical scientific study, scientific skills, communication skills, IT and quantitative skills, group working abilities, and personal organisation and development.
Trips to Greece and Sicily and locally in Sussex provide opportunities for fieldwork; natural attractions include Seven Sisters and the South Downs, along with freshwater rivers and both saline and semi-saline estuaries. You will have the opportunity to undertake a year’s placement allowing you to build experience and develop a network of professional contacts.
This programme is accredited by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
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Subjects
- Conservation
- Human Geography
- Accredited
- Systems
- Global
- Ecology
Course programme
Year 1
The first year introduces key themes in physical, human and environmental geography, with core modules that cover the physical forces of landscape change, the impacts of environmental change on the physical and human environments and the human modification of environmental processes. Fieldwork includes a trip to Greece.
Modules Core modules- Fundamentals of Physical Geography
This module will provide a theoretical and practical introduction to a range of azonal (tectonic, climatic, hydrological, fluvial, coastal, slope, aeolian, and biogeographical) and zonal (glacial and periglacial) physical geographical systems. You will examine the ways in which these systems interact with and influence human activities, both at the present day and over archaeological timescales.
- Global Environmental Issues
This module will introduce you to a range of pressing global environmental issues which are explored from both natural science and social science angles, via a range of case studies. The module focuses on scientific, social, economic and political aspects of current and past environmental issues and explores how some of the issues may be addressed through interdisciplinary management and mitigation. Workshop sessions involving targeted pre-reading and small group working will take place at specific intervals.
- Human Geography
This module provides a critical introduction to key themes in human geography. You will develop an appreciation of geographical concepts such as nature, space, place and scale through consideration of geographies of global political-economic change, past and contemporary cultural geographies and geographical imaginations, and social geographies of everyday life.
- Academic Learning and Field Skills
This module will introduce you to a range of academic study skills, fieldwork skills and transferable skills for geography and environmental sciences. The module will support you in how to learn at university, and in particular, with learning independently and autonomously. The module also involves a residential field course where you will learn field data collection and analysis techniques, methodology design and how to present research findings.
- Statistical and Spatial Data Analysis
This module will introduce you to a variety of techniques utilised in both the academic and professional world for the analysis of geographical and environmental data. Emphasis is placed on developing skills and abilities to graphically/visually display data and assess patterns/relationships through statistical testing, and geospatial display and analysis. The module will introduce you to and allow you to become a competent user of statistical software.
- The Earth and Ocean System
Module code: GG416
In this module you will explore and discuss the four ‘spheres’ of the Earth system: the lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, and how they interact to produce the stratigraphic record of Earth history.
- Urban Geography
Module code: GY452
This module will introduce you to key concepts, debates and issues in the sub-discipline of urban geography. It aims to provide you with detailed knowledge of the character and history of selected cities and urban settlements, drawn from both the Global North and the Global South, and their place within wider systems. Case studies of cities, towns and urban settlements seen as exemplifying social, cultural, economic and political processes of urban change and patterns of urbanisation will be explored.
- Introduction to Ecology and Conservation
Module code: BY156
This module will introduce you to key concepts and principles in both ecology and conservation science - illustrated with the use of both classic and cutting-edge case studies.
Emphasis is placed on the links between ecology and conservation and also between theory and applied research.
*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.
Geography bsc(hons)