Geography with Transport Studies

Leeds University Business School

Postgraduate

In Leeds

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Leeds

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Ever wondered how to plan transport to beat traffic jams, make buses and trains work and deliver all those online orders? How to make cities sustainable and healthy at the same time as provide access to jobs? Would you like to find out how transport professionals achieve their objectives? Our BA Geography with Transport Studies course explores how transport contributes to quality of life, but also causes problems for society – an issue that has taken it to the top of the political agenda.
This is a degree with a distinctive employability element - you'll study human geography alongside modules taught by the University’s internationally famous Institute for Transport Studies (ITS). A BA Geography with Transport Studies degree equips you with skills for a multitude of careers in the transport sector in the UK and worldwide, including: transport planning; transport analysis and economics; project management; freight and logistics. You will also graduate with the skills to equip you in roles such as: accountancy and banking; marketing and retail planning.
Graduates from this degree go on to high-level jobs in the transport sector, as well as other sectors (eg retail), and with its unique focus on the interactions between transport, space and place, the course provides specialist knowledge and skills that are in high demand.
Extending this degree
You can convert your 3-year degree into a 4-year degree by spending an additional year on an industrial placement or overseas, before returning to Leeds to complete your final year of study. Read "Study abroad and work placements".
Real world learning
We give you a £500 allowance to cover the costs of optional field trips across Levels 2 and 3.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leeds (North Yorkshire)
Maurice Keyworth Building, The University Of Leeds, LS2 9JT

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About this course

Entry requirements
A-level: AAB preferably including geography
If geography is not included then we would expect two A-levels from history, English, economics, sociology, a modern language, psychology, maths, biology, physics, chemistry, computing, law, philosophy and statistics. Offers exclude general studies and critical thinking.
GCSE: English and Mathematics at grade B or above, or an equivalent English language and Mathematics qualification.
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Access to HE Diploma
BTEC
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International Baccalaureate
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Subjects

  • Retail
  • Economics
  • Transport Studies
  • Project
  • Planning
  • Employability
  • Freight
  • Human Geography

Course programme

Each year of this programme is designed around a combination of compulsory Human Geography and Transport modules, with opportunities to take optional and/or discovery modules so that you can follow your own interests. Transport makes up approximately one third of the compulsory modules, with modules providing an overall introduction in the first year, looking at Transport and Society in the second year, and looking at travel activity, analysis and decision making in the third year. The balance of compulsory to optional/discovery modules depends on the year of study and is explained fully in the programme catalogue.

The range of Transport modules on offer provide specific employability skills, as well as allowing you to follow your interests and develop a specialism. Specialisms might include health, safety, appraisal, public transport or freight. The skills our graduates leave with make them especially appealing – many of our graduates receive multiple job offers.

For your third year you can opt to study abroad or to join our year in industry scheme with Geography and/or Transport placements. Once completed you return for your final year of study.

Course structure

These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.

Modules Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Local to Global: Geographies of a Changing World 40 credits
  • People, Place and Politics 40 credits
  • Studying in a Digital Age (Environment) 5 credits
  • Global to Local: Challenges in Transport and Mobility 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Nature, Society and Environment 20 credits

Year 2

Compulsory modules

  • Research Methods: Ideas and Practice in Human Geography 30 credits
  • Transport and Society 20 credits
Optional modules
  • Career Skills in Geography 10 credits
  • Political and Development Geographies 20 credits
  • Service analysis and planning 20 credits
  • Geographies of Economies 20 credits
  • Helsinki: urban growth and sustainability 20 credits
  • Montpellier: urban and rural development 20 credits
  • Belgrade: urban and social geographies of a Balkan city 20 credits
  • The Making of the Modern City 20 credits
  • Citizenship and Identity: Comparative Perspectives 20 credits
  • Living within limits: natural resource management for sustainable development 20 credits
  • Transport Economics 10 credits
  • Transport Land Use and Development 10 credits
  • Project Appraisal 10 credits
  • Transport, Energy and Environment 10 credits
  • Transport, Mobility and Safety 10 credits

Year 3

Compulsory modules

  • Human Geography Dissertation

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