Geography

Course summary

This A Level encourages independent study and synoptic thinking with a range of different geographical topics, supported by residential fieldwork in Norfolk. In the first year, we study ‘Changing Spaces, Making Places’ where we explore the concept of place, focusing on how and why places and their representations change over time. We also take an in-depth look at plate tectonics in when we study ‘Hazardous Earth’. Here we investigate how our Earth is ever changing, what hazards this presents us and whether wealth plays a part in how we mitigate ourselves against these hazards. In the second year, we look into the water and carbon system in our topic ‘Earth’s Life Support Systems’. Here, students learn how they are essential to life and will go on to understand how they impact the wider world.Students will go on to explore the contemporary issues of global migration and human rights through studying geopolitical pattern between these two topics. We end our journey by studying the geography of disease in ‘Disease Dilemmas’. We research the distributions of diseases, the reasons behind these and how we are dealing with the global threat of epidemics. Students will undertake a five-day residential fieldwork trip to Norfolk where they will collection date for an independent investigation of their choosing at the end of Year 12.