Geography

Course summary

The Geography specification is designed to excite your mind, challenge your perceptions, and stimulate your investigative and analytical skills. You will study a combination of physical and human geography units. Field work will be conducted as part of the course, this includes 2 days local fieldwork in Year 12 and 5 days fieldwork in Wales in Year 13. Year 12: • Hazards • Water/Carbon Cycles Year 13: • Coastal Systems and Landscapes • Globalisation and Global Governance • Contemporary Urban Environments You will be assessed on your ability to: • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of places, environments, concepts, processes, interactions, and change, at a variety of scales (30-40%) •Apply knowledge and understanding in different contexts to interpret, analyse, and evaluate geographical information and issues (30-40%) • Use a variety of relevant quantitative, qualitative, and fieldwork skills to investigate geographical questions and issues, interpret, analyse, and evaluate data and evidence, as well as construct arguments and draw conclusions (20-30%)