Geography
Degree programmes you choose you will have fieldwork opportunities in the UK and abroad (London, Durham, Dublin, Cairngorms, Somerset, Dorset, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas).
the degree, for example, could be to combine the policy- and/or development-orientated modules offered by both the Schools of Geography and Economics and Finance.
Programme outline Year 1 Compulsory modules: Introduction to Geographical Ideas and Practice • Analysing Geographical and Environmental Data • Fundamental of Management • Economics for Business • Either Methods for Environmental Research or • An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods • Either Reinventing Britain or • Fieldwork in Physical Geography and Environmental Science • Options include: Critical Human Geographies • Environment, Nature and Society • Geographical Perspectives • Globalisation, Development and Inequality • Earth: Portrait of a Planet • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms • Global Environmental Issues • Planet Earth: Global Systems
Programme outline Year 1 Economics core modules: Principles of Economics • Microeconomics 1 • Macroeconomics 1 • Economics compulsory module: Mathematical Methods in Economics and Business 1
Year 2 Compulsory modules: Either Geographical Research in Practice or • Research Strategies in Physical Environments • Marketing • Financial Accounting • Options include: Spaces of Uneven Development • Geographical Information Systems • Geography, Identity, Belonging • Health, Inequality and Society • Society, Culture and Space • Urban Futures • Digital Worlds: Cartography, Modelling and GIS • Earth System Cycles • Global Environmental Change Year 3 Compulsory modules: Independent Geographical Study • Strategy • Human Resource Management • Options include: Gender and Development • Geographies of Home • Geographies of Labour • Geography, Identity, Belonging • Global Historical Geographies • Body, Health and Society • Regional Economics and Policy • Spaces of PostSocialism • The Politics of Development • Urban Futures • Urbanism, Culture and Modernity • Victorian London: Economy, Society and Culture • The Geopolitics of Life
Geography and Economics LL71 BScEcon/GE (three years) Programme description This programme allows you to apply the analytical approach of economics to the various topics studied in geography modules. Your understanding of political economy will inform your views of contemporary geographical issues, such as the production and allocation of natural resources, and how this affects taxation. Together with compulsory core modules in both subjects, you also have a choice of option modules in Years 2 and 3, allowing you to develop your own interests. One route through
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Geography compulsory modules: Introduction to Geographical Ideas and Practice • Globalisation, Development and Inequality • Options include: Critical Human Geographies • Environment, Nature and Society • Geographical Perspectives • Reinventing Britain • Analysing Geographical and Environmental Data • An Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods • Global Environmental Issues • Planet Earth: Global Systems Year 2 Economics core module: Statistical Methods for Economics 1 • Economics compulsory modules: Microeconomics 2 • Games and Strategies • Macroeconomics 2 Geography options include: Spaces of Uneven Development • Geographical Research in Practice • Geographical Information Systems • Geography, Identity, Belonging • Health, Inequality and Society • Society, Culture and Space • Urban Futures Year 3 There are no compulsory modules in the third year. You should choose from the lists of available options from the Schools of Economics and Finance and Geography. Please make sure that you satisfy the minimum of nine economics modules over the three years of your programme, one of which must be a third year module. See the School of Economics and Finance section, page 92. Geography options include: Independent Geographical Study • Gender and Development • Geographies of Home • Geographies of Labour • Geography, Identity, Belonging • Global Historical Geographies • Body, Health and Society • Regional Economics and Policy • Spaces of Post-Socialism • The Politics of Development • Urban Futures • Urbanism, Culture and Modernity • Victorian London: Economy, Society and Culture • The Geopolitics of Life
Geography and Politics LL72 BA/GeoPol (three years) Programme description If you are interested in current affairs as well as the dynamic environmental, social and cultural systems and processes in the world around us, this programme is for you. It explores the spatial and