MGeog Geography - Full-time
Master
In Lincoln
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Type
Master
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Location
Lincoln
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Duration
4 Years
Geography is an integrative subject that seeks to understand the relationship between human society and its environment, addressing some of the critical issues that are challenging our future.
Geography at Lincoln is designed to develop subject understanding and geographical skills progressively in the context of real-world problems, enabling students to apply their learning to contemporary global challenges. With Lincoln’s unique focus on the ‘safety and health of the inhabited Earth’, our mission is to deliver a degree that is relevant to the global, environmental and societal challenges for the 21st century.
A belief in the importance of interdisciplinary knowledge to address major issues is at the heart of our approach. Our academics are experienced researchers investigating key and emerging issues across the spectrum of human and physical geography.
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About this course
This MGeog programme allows students to further their expertise in a chosen area of Geography and to develop their understanding of geographical debates in the context of other disciplines. It focuses on advanced geographical skills, exposing students to contemporary interdisciplinary debates at the cutting-edge of the field, and enables students to pursue their research interests by completing an original research project that they report in a journal-style article.
Geography can offer a broad range of career opportunities for its graduates. These include roles in geographical information systems, social environmental consultancy, planning and public policy, management, teaching, and the financial sector. The School’s links with industry, business, and environmental regulatory agencies provide opportunities for internships and work experience.
United Kingdom
GCE Advanced Levels: BBB including a B in Geography or related subject. (History, English, Economics, Sociology, a modern Language,
Psychology, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Physics).
Non UK Qualifications:
EU and Overseas students will be required to demonstrate English language proficiency equivalent to IELTS 6.0 overall, with a minimum of 5.5 in each element. For information regarding other English language qualifications we accept, please visit the English Requirements page.
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Subjects
- Monitoring
- Approach
- Global
- Project
- Systems
- Full Time
- Analysis
- Quantitative
- Environmental Data
- Sustainable Environments
- Qualitative Geographical
Course programme
- A Sustainable Lincolnshire (Core)
- Challenges of Rural & Urban Living (Core)
- Earth Observation & GIS (Core)
- Earth’s Changing Surface and the Anthropocene (Core)
- Environmental Data Monitoring & Analysis (Core)
- People, Places, Patterns and Processes (Core)
- Sustainable Environments & Ecosystems (Core)
- The Earth System: Processes & Hazards (Core)
- Biogeography & Planetary Health (Option)
- Climatology & Hydrology (Option)
- Cultural & Historical Geography (Option)
- Development Studies & the Global South (Option)
- Earth Observation, Modelling & Visualisation: Representing Reality & Understanding Change (Core)
- Geographical Research: Theory & Practice (Core)
- Placement (Level 2) (Option)
- Political & Social Geography (Option)
- Quantitative & Qualitative Geographical Analysis Methods (Core)
- Quaternary Science (Option)
- River & Coastal Systems: Science & Management (Option)
- Urban & Regional Economic Geography (Option)
- Advanced Earth Observation GIS (Option)
- Coastal Ecosystems: processes and management (Option)
- Contemporary Climate Change & Processes (Option)
- Dissertation Research Project (Physical) (Core)
- Environmental Histories of the New & Old World (Option)
- Environmental Management (Option)
- Geochemistry: contaminants, resources and global carbon (Option)
- Geographies of Health & Wellbeing (Option)
- Geographies of Power, Conflict & Discrimination (Option)
- Geography Pedagogy (Option)
- Global Systems & Societies: Ageing, Migration & Mobility (Option)
- Human Impacts on Ecosystems, the Environment and Planetary Health (Option)
- Natural Hazards (Option)
- Overseas Fieldwork (Option)
- Placement (Level 3) (Option)
- Policy and Politics of Climate Change (Option)
- Project Essay (Option)
- River Systems & Global Environmental Change (Option)
- Rural Geography (Option)
- Urban and Regional Political Ecology: Environment, Development and the City (Option)
- Advanced Research Methods in Development Geography (Option)
- Advanced Research Methods in Water and Planetary Health (Option)
- Coastal Ecosystems: Processes and Management (M) (Option)
- Conflict, Migration & Development (Option)
- Confronting Future Social and Environmental Challenges (Core)
- Contemporary Interdisciplinary Debates in Geography (Core)
- Environmental Histories of the New & Old World (M) (Option)
- Global Challenges in Development Research (Option)
- Global Perspectives on Rural Development (Option)
- Preparing for Research (Core)
- Psychology of Environmental Behaviour and Resource Management (Option)
- Research Project (MGeog) (Core)
- River Systems & Global Environmental Change (M) (Option)
- System Modelling for Water & Planetary Health (Option)
- Water and Planetary Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach 1 (Option)
Additional information
£15,900 per level
MGeog Geography - Full-time