WHAT IS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY BA (HONS)?
Read moreGeography lies at the centre of many of the world’s most pressing issues – our BA Human Geography course focuses exclusively on the human dimension of the discipline, enabling you to specialise in the socio-geographic challenges of our time.
You’ll join a course ranked 5th in the UK and 1st for overall student satisfaction and teaching satisfaction by the Guardian University Guide 2023.
You’ll study topics including population, migration, geopolitics, sustainability, health, ageing, development, conflict, global crime and inequalities. This breadth of content coupled with the development of an extensive range of qualitative, statistical and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research skills will prepare you for a career in a vast range of employment sectors.
COURSE MODULES
Here's an example of the types of modules you'll study (the contents and structure of the course are reviewed occasionally, but it is unlikely that there will be significant change).
Module information is not available for this programme.
- Level 4 (Undergraduate year 1)All students must complete these modules:
- Introductory Geographical Research & Fieldwork (NS4301)
- Living in a Globalised World (NS4303)
- Data Handling and Presentation (NS4304)
- Practical Human Geography (NS4306)
- Social Identities (NS4402)
- Geographical Enquiry (NS5308)
- Threats to Civilisation (NS5318)
- Fieldwork Elective: Human Geography (NS5322)
- Internship (NS5001)
- Geographic Information Systems (NS5307)
- Population Dynamics (NS5309)
- Global Health (NS5315)
- Conflict & Peacebuilding (NS5316)
- Crimes against Humanity (NS5403)
- Poverty, Inequality and Social Welfare (NS5409)
- Human Geography Dissertation (NS6336)
- Geopolitics of Global Environmental Change (NS6343)
- Professional Experience (NS6001)
- Advanced Geographic Information Systems (NS6306)
- Migration Challenges (NS6307)
- Global Ageing (NS6310)
- Humanitarian Intervention & Disaster Relief (NS6315)
- Injustice and Freedoms (NS6406)
- Power, globalisation and social change (NS6410)
- Global and Organised Crime (NS6511)
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