Geography

Year 1

Year 1

Courses are divided into modules, and students on this course take modules totalling 120 credits each year.

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-todate, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on this course page for updates.

Required Modules You will be required to take the following modules:

• The Changing Natural Environment I (15 credits)
• Geographical Foundations I: the making of the modern world (15 credits)
• The Changing Natural Environment II (15 credits)
• Principles of Geographical Inquiry I (30 credits)
• Geography in Action (15 credits) Within this module there is a chance to tailor your subject area interest
• Geography Tutorials: Critical Thinking & Techniques (30 credits)

Optional Modules There are no optional modules in Year 1, but a variety of required and optional field work activities will be offered to enhance learning.

Year 2

Year 2

Required Modules You will be required to take the following modules:

• Field Research in Physical Geography (15 credits)
• BSc Geography Research Tutorials (15 credits)
• Geographical Research Skills (15 credits)

Optional Modules

You are also required to take sufficient credits to bring your total for the year to 120, from a range of optional modules, some of which fall into thematic areas. The current themes that are highlighted include:

• 1) Urban and Cultural Geography
• 2) Physical Geography
• 3) Society, Environment and Geography
• 4) Development Geography
• 5) Geocomputation and Spatial Analysis.

The choice of optional modules may typically
include:

• Physical Geography: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (15 credits)
• Society, Environment & Geography: The Nature of the Environment (15 credits)
• Geocomputation (15 credits)
• Spatial Analysis (15 credits)
• Natural Hazards (15 credits)
• Climatic Variablity Change And Society (15 credits)
• Environmental Remote Sensing (15 credits)
• Global Environmental Issues: Science & Solutions (15 credits)
• Biogeography & Ecology (15 credits)

You may also take any of the modules from the BA Geography degree, which may typically include the following modules:

• Development Geography: Livelihoods & Policy Contexts (15 credits)
• Urban & Cultural Geography: Space, Society & Culture (15 credits)
• Historical Geographies of Urbanism (15 credits)
• Urban Geography: Exploring the City (15 credits)
• Territory, State & Nation (15 credits)
• Environment, Society & Geography: The Nature Of Environment (15 credits)
• Water & Development (15 credits)

You will also have the opportunity to study abroad for either the second semester of the second year, or for the whole year, depending on your progression in the first year and partner university availability. Partner institutions currently include:

• University of Auckland
• Hong Kong University
• University of Melbourne
• Monash University (includes study options in South Africa and Malaysia)
• National University of Singapore
• Universiti Brunei Darussalam (second semester only)
• University of California
• University of North Carolina
• University of Toronto (full year only)
• University of British Columbia
• University of Washington (Seattle)
• Australian National University (Canberra)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison

Year 3

Year 3 Required Modules

You are required to take the following module:

• Policy and Application of Geography Research (15 credits)

You are also required to take the Independent Geographical Study 30 credit module as a piece of individual research, which is supported on a one-to-one basis by a supervisor from within the Geography department.

Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take a total of 75 credits from a wide range of options, which may typically include:

• Advanced Issues In Natural And Environmental Hazards (15 credits)
• Global Environmental Change I: Climate Science (15 credits)
• Global Environmental Change II: Earth System Dynamics (15 credits)
• Environmental Remote Sensing II (15 credits)
• Desert Environments (15 credits)
• Tropical Forests in a Changing Environment (15 credits)
• Directed Readings in Geography (15 credits)
• Applied Geocomputation and Spatial Analysis (15 credits)

Or any of the final year modules on the BA Geography course, which may typically include the following modules:

• Health, Lifestyles & Cities (15 credits)
• The Right to the City (15 credits)
• Hollywood & the Post-Industrial City (15 credits)
• Geopolitics: Power & Place (15 credits)
• Economy, Society & Politics in 19th Century London (15 credits)
• Political Economy of Hazardscapes (15 credits)
• Global Political Ecology (15 credits)
• Histories & Geographies of Climate Change (15 credits)
• Environmental Risk, Governance & Society (15 credits)
• Gender and Development in the Global South (15 credits)