Geography

Course summary

Course Content: A-Level Geography will study overlapping topics within both human and physical geography allowing students to apply their knowledge to a worldwide context. Geography students will develop skills in extended writing, research and presenting throughout the course. Physical Geography topics will include: Water and Carbon Cycles - investigating the major stores of water and carbon at or near the Earth’s surface and their dynamic interaction. Glacial Systems and Landscapes - studying this dynamic ecosystem and their interaction with changes in past and present climate conditions. Hazards - exploring the lithosphere and atmosphere and how the natural hazards can dramatically impact the human population. Human Geography topics will include: Global Systems and Governance - focusing on globalisation and how the economic, social and political changes are driving forces of the global economy. Changing places - considering people’s engagement with places, their experience of them and the qualities they ascribe to them. In addition, students will also carry out coursework which will be centred around their own Geographical fieldwork investigation. Progression: Students who gain a Geography degree are the most employable graduates across all degrees with the exception of career specific degrees. This is due to the transferable skills and wide understanding of the world they develop. A degree in Geography opens the door to careers such as meteorology, town planning, law, surveying, conversation & the environment, politics & charity work.