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Overview

This course is designed for students who are interested in the world around them and investigating geographical issues.

The course focuses on the development of an investigative approach to geography through the study of places and environments; the processes which shape environments, spatial outcomes, and issues which arise from the interaction between people and environments.

The course is aimed for those who have already achieved GCSE Geography level and wish to go onto Higher Education or 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:

• Appreciate the nature of geography as an academic discipline and, through its study, find a sense of personal fulfilment and an informed concern about the quality of the environment.
• Acquire and apply knowledge and understanding of physical and human processes, their interactions and outcomes over space and time, through the study of places and environments.
• Acquire and apply the skills necessary for pursuit of the discipline through an investigative approach.
• Develop an understanding of the inter-relationships between people and their environments, and of the opportunities, challenges and constraints which face people in different places and environments.
• Understand and respond sensitively to the values, needs and concerns of different communities, and to inequalities, including those influenced by cultural and ethnic differences.
• Understand how decisions are made about the use and management of resources and environments, and to understand the relevance and effects of people's values and attitudes to the identification and resolution of geographical issues.
• Clarify and develop their own values and attitudes in relation to contemporary issues and questions.
• Appreciate the dynamic nature of geography: how places, environments and isssues change, and people's responses to these changes.
• Develop an awareness that geographical studies may involve explanations which are partial, tentative and incomplete.
• Appreciate that changes in geographical ideas and methods may give rise to different interpretations.
• Develop the key skills of Communication, Application of Number and Information Technology.
• Benefit from opportunities to acquire the wider key skills of Working with Others, Improving Own Learning and Performance and Problem Solving.