BSc Geography and Mathematics

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the programme students should have provided evidence of having:

- an understanding of a range of environmental systems, their history, and how they reflect key processes, along with issues of sustainable resource use within such systems;
- an understanding of geography's intellectual development and the important theoretical perspectives applied to the study of environmental systems and environmental sustainability;
- an appreciation of the practical contributions made by geographers to debates and policy on environmental and resource issues, and the environmental impacts of human activity, along with an understanding of their potential for continuing such contributions;
- the skills necessary to engage with scientific ideas and theory;
- laboratory and field-based skills in environmental analysis and/or skills in the application of quantitative analysis and geographical information systems to environmental study;
- skills in teamwork, investigation, presentation and communication.

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques of mathematics;
- demonstrate a reasonable level of skill in calculation and manipulation within this basic body of knowledge;
- apply core concepts and principles in well-defined contexts;
- appreciate the coherence, logical structure and broad applicability of mathematics;
- demonstrate an awareness of skills in comprehending problems, formulating them mathematically and obtaining solutions by appropriate methods;
- use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake problem solving.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.

Learning context

The learning context for this year/award will be simple if unpredictable and complex if predictable. The study will be structured within a framework of tasks that provide breadth of study and proficiency in the application of concepts and techniques.