BA Geography

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University of Nottingham

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• Objectives
  This course is designed to produce geography graduates with a broad understanding of the physical and human environment and with the necessary skills of analysis and synthesis to deal with information from a range of sources and in a wide variety of forms. BSc students are expected to follow a majority of physical geography pathways.
• Entry requirements
  Required subjects: grade A in geography at A2 level IB score: 34-36 (6 in geography)
• Academic title
  BA Geography
• Course description
  BA Geography
  
  Programme
  
  Year one
  
  You will place equal emphasis this year on the fields of physical and human geography, and geographical information science. Introductions are provided to atmospheric, oceanic, geomorphological and biogeographical systems and environmental change and cultural, economic, social, rural and urban geography.
  
  Technical themes include data evaluation using statistical packages and geographical information systems.
  
  Years two and three
  
  During the remaining two years of your degree, you will follow optional pathways, five in year two and three in year three, in many cases leading to applied aspects of the discipline. Pathways include Economic, Medical, Urban, Cultural and Environmental Geography on the "human" side and Biogeography, Environmental Change, GIS, Fluvial, Coastal and Dry Regions studies on the "physical" and "technical" sides of geography. These pathways allow you to design a degree structure which reflects your own interests and aspirations.

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