BA - Human Geography

Entry Requirements

• Relevant qualifications accepted by the university.

English Language Requirements:

• IELTS: 6.5
• TOEFL: 90
• Pearson: 61
• Cambridge CPE: C
• Cambridge CAE: C
• Cambridge CPE and CAE: 176
• TEEP: 6.5
• OIBEC: Pass
• ESOL (Skills for Life): Level 1

Curriculum

First Year

• Core Concepts in Human Geography
• Environment, Nature and Society A
• Environment, Nature and Society B
• Exploring our Digital Planet
• Fieldwork Skills for Professional Geographers
• Introduction to Globalisation and Global Inequalities
• Skills for Professional Geographers
• Working with Geographical Information

Plus two option modules from:

Economics

• Microeconomics 1
• Macroeconomics 1

Modern Languages

• French Language for Beginners
• Modern French Language
• Spanish Language
• Spanish Language Advanced
• Basic Italian
• Italian Language and Civilisation

Criminology

• Crime in Focus
• Introduction to Criminal Justice
• Theories of Crime

Computer Science

• Computers and Society

Archaeology

• Archaeology: The essentials
• Using archaeological evidence 

Natural Sciences

• Sustainable Futures A
• Sustainable Futures C

Second Year 

• Geographical Research in the Field (overseas field course)
• Thinking Space
• Workplace Geographies or Geography in Education

Plus three option modules from:

• Contemporary Issues in Human or Digital Geographies
• Environment and Development
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Global Geopolitical Economy
• Social and Cultural Geographies

Economics

• Households, Firms, Markets, Welfare
• Market Power and Market Failure

Criminology

• Experiencing the Criminal Justice System
• Policing; Prisons, Probation and Punishment
• Psychology and Crime
• Working in Criminal Justice
• Youth Crime

Modern Languages

• Introduction à la Francophonie
• French Language (Post-Beginners)
• History and Culture in 20th Century Italy
• History and Culture in Italian Literature

Natural Sciences

• Sustainable Futures B
• Sustainable Futures D

Archaeology

• Living in towns: Medieval

Final Year

• Dissertation (final year research project)

Plus four option modules from:

• Contemporary Digital Geographies
• Contemporary Environmental Challenges
• Geographies of Culture and Representation
• Geography and the Everyday Politics of Identity
• Postcolonial Perspectives in and of Africa
• Remote Sensing for Geographers
• Spaces of Social Change
• Field class: either Kenya: Environment, Gender and Development or South West USA: Nature, Culture, Country