Geography (Professional Experience) : MSci Hons
Master
In Lancaster
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Lancaster
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Duration
4 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
You won’t just be sat in lectures at Lancaster. Study geography in our outstanding practical facilities; explore our beautiful surroundings; take part in international field trips; learn from world-renowned lecturers; and collaborate with industry professionals and businesses.
Geography is a distinctive subject: it studies our world in a vast range of areas. Our Geography degree programme explores the Earth’s landscapes, species, places and environment in a dynamic range of modules that draw from the humanities, social science and physical science subjects. Through this programme, you will also be given the fantastic opportunity to get involved with real-world projects, working with our partners in industry.
While studying in the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC), you will have access to new teaching and research labs, computer systems and software and even our very own weather monitoring station. Working in comfortable class sizes, you will have the opportunity to get to know your lecturers personally, enabling you to benefit from their expert knowledge and helpful one-to-one advice.
Our location, between the rural settings of the north and the bustling cities of Liverpool and Manchester, enables us to explore some of the UK’s most unique areas of geographic interest. You will gain a wealth of hands-on experience with field trips to places such as the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbrian coast and Lake District, as well as international locations such as Iceland, Amazonia, New York and Croatia.
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About this course
Geography graduates can achieve success in a variety of exciting careers. Recent examples of career opportunities have included entering the profession of Planning Officer, Environmental Consultant, Geographical Information Systems Officer, Weather Forecaster, Emergency Planner or Landscape Architect. Alternatively, many of our graduates choose to continue their studies to postgraduate level. Our goal is to empower all our graduates with the skills, confidence and experience they need to achieve a successful career. You will be offered a wide range of support, helping you realise your career ambitions and providing you with the skills to reach your full potential.
A Level AAA
Required Subjects A level grade A in Geography
GCSE Mathematics grade C or 4, English Language grade C or 4
IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in each component.
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Subjects
- Biodiversity
- International
- Global
- Systems
- Human Geography
- Conservation
- Technology
- Environment
- Dissertation
- Globalization
- Industry
Course programme
Core
- Environmental Processes and Systems
- Geographical Skills in a Changing World
- Global Environmental Challenges
- Society and space - Human Geography
Optional
- Biodiversity and Conservation
- Natural Hazards
Core
- Geographical Pioneers and Concepts
- Introduction to Eco-Innovation
- Research Project Skills
- Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems
Optional
- Atmospheric Science
- Catchment Hydrology
- Communicating Geography
- Cultural Geography
- Development, Geography and the Majority World
- Energy, Economy and Environment
- Environment and Society
- Evolution
- Geoscience in Practice
- Glacial and Fluvial Landscape Processes
- Globalizing Food: A Field Course of Food Politics and Culture in Paris
- Interacting Landscapes: Biogeography and Geomorphology
- Investigating Mediterranean Environments
- People and the Sea
- Political Geography
- Populations to Ecosystems
- Principles of Biodiversity Conservation
- Soil Science
Core
- Dissertation with External Partner
Optional
- Africa:Geographies of Transformation
- Cities and Globalization
- Climate and Society
- Conservation and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon
- Environment, Politics and Society in Amazonia
- Environmental Remote Sensing and Image Processing
- Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century
- Geographical Information Systems: Principles and Practice
- Geographies of Health
- Geological Hazards
- Glacial Systems
- Glacier- landscape interactions
- Global Change and the Earth System
- Global Change Biology: Challenges and Solutions
- Global Consumption
- Hydrological Processes Field Course (Slapton)
- Introduction to Geophysical Techniques
- Issues in Conservation Biology
- Lakes, Rivers and Estuaries
- New York Field Course
- Quaternary Environmental Change
- Sustainable Agriculture
- The Causes and Consequences of Environmental Radioactivity
- The Dynamic Earth
- Urban Infrastructure in a Changing World
- Volcanic Processes Field Course
- Water Resources Management
- Water, Society and the Istrian Landscape
Core
- Professional Experience Dissertation
- Professional Experience Placement
Optional
- Catchment Protection (field course)
- Climate Change and Society
- Data Analysis and Interpretation
- Data Analysis and Programming Skills
- Environmental Aspects of Renewable Energy
- Environmental Auditing
- Environmental Governance and Management
- Food Security, Agriculture and Climate Change
- Geoinformatics
- Geological Hazards
- Global Change and the Earth System
- Groundwater Resources and Protection
- Lake Ecology
- Modelling Environmental Processes
- Numerical Skills
- Perspectives on Environment and Development
- Physical Volcanology
- Research Methods in the Social Sciences
- Sustainable Soil Management
- Volcanic Process Field Course
Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years. For more information about our teaching methods at Lancaster visit our Teaching and Learning section.
Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.
Additional information
£18,890
Geography (Professional Experience) : MSci Hons