Geography

Course summary

Our AS and A level Geography specifications provide a dynamic, contemporary, and exciting opportunity for students to engage with the world around them. Our specifications inspire a love of geography for lifelong learning, drawing on issues that are relevant to a student’s own learning of the subject in a variety of contexts. Our AS and A level Geography specifications have been designed to strengthen geographical and fieldwork skills gained at GCSE and delve more deeply into content. Glaciated Landscapes • Factors affecting landscapes. • Landform development. • Influence of climate change. • Impact of human activity. Changing Spaces Making Places • Two contrasting places at a local scale. • How place is understood and represented. • Economic change and social inequality, with players involved. • Place-making processes in creating places. Exploring Oceans • The Ocean Floor • Ocean resources • Humans’ use of Oceans • Pollution of our Oceans Earth’s Life Support Systems • Importance of water and carbon to life on Earth • Case studies of tropical rainforest and Arctic tundra • Change over time • Links and interdependence between the cycles Global Connections • Migration • Human Rights Hazardous Earth • Earthquakes • Volcanoes