Creative writing is designed around practical writing workshops and the applications of writing; workshops concentrate on particular kinds of writing that have a literary focus, such as poetry; short stories; or fiction; geography explores spatial aspects of the complex inter-relationships between human beings and the environment; provides an understanding of physical processes, socio-cultural systems and their roles in environmental change; there is a choice of modules which enable specialisation in the physical, human or development aspects of geography; geographical data handling and research methods is a core study; fieldwork is essential to the course.