Geography

Course summary

The A Level course includes exploring physical landscape systems by studying Coasts, Water and Carbon Cycles and hazards. The human topics include Global systems and Governance, Changing Places and Contemporary Urban environments. There will be field trips exploring the human and physical worlds. An individual coursework assignment allows students to investigate an area of interest for themselves. A Level Geography is related to a vast number of careers for a number of reasons. Geography as a subject develops a huge range of transferable skills which employers value highly, for example problem solving and analysis. Some of the main vocational areas which employ geographers include: environmental management; leisure, travel and tourism, business and finance, planners, education, surveyors, spatial analyst, meteorologist, social services, policy makers, journalism etc. It is also looked favourably upon by universities and can be studied as a Bachelor of science or arts.