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Overview

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the complex inter-relationships between people and environment. Students will gain sound knowledge of physical and human geography. Throughout the course, students take an investigative approach and develop their observational skills in greater depth.

Prior knowledge of the subject is not essential. The course provides a strong foundation for those who wish to go onto Higher Education or directly into employment. Geographical information is now used in many businesses and Geographical Information Systems are an exciting interface between geography and information and communications technology.

Specification aims

The aims of these specifications are to encourage students to:

• Acquire and apply knowledge and understanding of physical and human geographical processes, their interactions and outcomes over space and time, through the study of places and environments (for example Module 2680).
• Acquire and apply the skills necessary for the pursuit of the discipline (for example Module 2682: Geographical Investigation).
• Develop an understanding of the inter-relationships between people and their environments, and of the opportunities, challenges and constraints that face people in different places and environments (for example Rural and Urban settlement pattern, process and change in Module 2681).
• Appreciate the dynamic nature of geography; how places, environments and issues change, and how people respond to these changes (for example Rural and Urban settlement; pattern, process and change in Module 2681).
• Understand how decisions are made about the use and management of resources and environments, and understand the significance and effects of people's values and attitudes in geographical issues (for example Module 2680 and Population; pattern, process and change in Module 2681).
• Clarify and develop their own values and attitudes in relation to contemporary geographical issues and questions (for example Module 2680 and Rural and Urban settlement; pattern, process and change in Module 2681)
• Acquire a deeper understanding of the connections between different aspects of geography (for example Module 2684: Synoptic Geography).
• Understand and respond sensitively to the values, needs and concerns of different communities, and to inequalities, including those influenced by cultural and ethnic differences (for example Tourism, Recreation and their Environmental Impacts in Module 2683).
• Become aware of recent ideas, methods and approaches in different aspects of geography by offering study in depth at A2 (for example the Applied Climatology option in Module 2683).
• Appreciate that geographical interpretations may be tentative and partial, and can change over time (for example Modules 2685 and 2686).