Geography (Study Abroad) : BA Hons

Lancaster University

Bachelor's degree

In Lancaster

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Lancaster

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Discover Geography at Lancaster and overseas with our exciting Study Abroad programme. Explore a range of amazing locations and learn from world-renowned lecturers.

Geography is a distinctive subject: it studies our world in a vast range of areas. Our Study Abroad programme provides a unique first-hand experience of work and life in a different country. You will spend a year exploring the diverse physical environments, societies and culture in North America or Australasia, as well as benefiting from our world-class teaching at the state-of-the-art Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC).

While studying at LEC, you will have access to a host of new facilities including 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.

Modules taken at Lancaster will make extensive use of the rural settings of the north and the bustling cities of Liverpool and Manchester, allowing you to explore some of the UK’s most unique areas of geographic interest in comparison with another country. 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 including New York, Croatia or the Brazilian Amazon.

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Location

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Lancaster (Lancashire)
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Lancaster University, LA1 4YW

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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 professions of Planning Officer, Environmental Consultant, Geographical Information Systems Officer, Weather Forecaster, Emergency Planner, Landscape Architect, Technical Consultant with the Ordnance Survey, Intelligent Transport Systems Consultant, or Water Waste Management at Severn Trent Water. Alternatively, many of our graduates choose to continue their studies to postgraduate level.

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

Course programme

Year 1

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
Year 2

Core

  • Study Abroad Year
Year 3

Core

  • Beyond LEC? Steps to Career Success
  • Dissertation

Optional

  • Africa:Geographies of Transformation
  • Alpine Environmental Processes Field Course
  • 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
  • Physical Geography Fieldwork (Geomorphology and past environments of Northern Spain)
  • 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

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.

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