2019/20 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BSc Geography
Programme code: | BS-GEOG | UCAS code: | F800 |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Graeme Swindles | Contact address: | g.t.swindles@leeds.ac.uk |
Part Time students will take the same array of compulsory, optional and elective modules as Full Time students. The order in which they are studied will be by agreement between the student, the School of Geography and the parent department.
Total credits: 365
Entry requirements:
AAB preferably including Geography, and excluding General Studies.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Geography
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Geography
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
Geography
Professional Body Offering Accreditation:
Royal Geographical Society
Programme specification:
The distinctiveness of the BSc Geography programme is that it will allow students to:
1. investigate and to inter-relate core components of the earth surface system, at present and in the immediate past;
2. explore, to analyse and to synthesise the complex and reciprocal relationships between the physical components of the earth, the environment, landscape and human society;
3. understand, to explain and to challenge the implications of (1) and (2) for both policy and practice;
4. develop specific skills in relation to data acquisition, analysis and interpretation in relation to geography in general and physical/environmental geography in particular;
5. develop transferable skills in relation to Information Technology and numeracy; fieldwork; laboratory methods; communication and teamwork; critical analysis; creative thinking; and writing; and
6. prepare students for; life-long learning, study and enquiry; for future careers; and for disseminating the value of a geography education to the wider world.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
GEOG1000 | Planet Under Threat | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG1040 | Dynamic Landscapes | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG1045 | Living Planet | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG1055 | Environmental Change: Past and Future | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG1081 | Data analysis and physical geography tutorials | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
GEOG1550 | Population, Society and Space | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
SOEE1486 | Foundation Mathematics 2 | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
- Candidates should study 10-20 credits worth of discovery modules (10 credits if they have taken SOEE1486, 20 credits if they have not).
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
GEOG2015 | Career Skills in Geography | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2095 | Skills for Physical Geographers | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 50-70 credits from the following lists of optional Geography modules:
Subset A
BSc Geography candidates must take one of the following field trip modules:
GEOG2006 | The dynamic environment of the European Alps | 10 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2007 | The Dynamic Environment of Mallorca | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
GEOG2008 | The dynamic environment of the Western Algarve | 10 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Subset B
BSc Geography candidates should take at least 40 credits from the following list:
GEOG2060 | Living within limits: natural resource management for sustainable development | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2080 | Earth Surface Processes | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2085 | Ecosystems: process, pattern, and change | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG2090 | Climate Systems | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students can take up to 20 credits of the following optional modules.
Note: you must have taken some BA Geography modules at level 1 in order to take either of these level 2 BA Geography modules.
GEOG2055 | Citizenship and Identity: Comparative Perspectives | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
GEOG2330 | Geographies of Protest and Resistance | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
Discovery modules may be modules from other departments or human geography.
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory module:
GEOG3605 | Physical Geography Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Optional modules:
- Candidates will be required to study 60-80 credits from the following optional modules.
- Please note that GEOG3520, GEOG3530 and GEOG3820 are mutually exclusive.
- GEOG3062 and GEOG3069 are mutually exclusive and may be taken with one of the above modules with permission.
GEOG3062 | New Zealand Field Trip | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3065 | Water Science & Management | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3069 | Costa Rica Field Trip | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3121 | Creating Alternative Futures | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3180 | Management of Wilderness and Global Ecosystems | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3520 | Workplace Co-operative Project | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3530 | Geographers into Teaching: School Placements | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3669 | The Cryosphere | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3690 | Tropical forests and sustainable development | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3711 | Hydrological Monitoring and Modelling | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3820 | Research Placement | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3877 | Global Environmental Cycles | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
GEOG3895 | Timescales of Global Change | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study up to 20 credits of discovery modules.
Last updated: 06/09/2019
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