Leicester, University of, BA (Hons), Geography

Year 1: Modules cover the breadth of geography and are common to BSc and BA students; they include: principles of physical geography; environment; nature and society; and human worlds of difference; approaches to university study and transferable skills are developed in skills for professional geographers while working with geographical information introduces students to geographical data analysis. Year 2: students take modules which are primarily grounded in human geography, combining core modules with free choice modules which make up pathways of specialisation in particular areas; core modules focus on the central approaches to human geography (theory and practice in human geography), while planning human geography research and the human geography field course prepare students for their final year research project, the fieldwork for which is usually executed over the summer; students are required to choose 1 of the human geography oriented field courses, which have recently been to New York, Brussels and Krakow; there are 5 human geography pathways: the digital planet (geographical information systems, geographical data analysis, remote sensing); globalization (economic and political geography); media and culture (cultural geography, rural geography); development (rethinking development geographies); environment (global environmental issues). Year 3: students use the concepts and general areas of geography covered in year 2 and apply them critically to current issues within each pathway; students also submit a dissertation which is an individual research project based on any area of human geography; pathways and modules include: the digital planet (geographical information systems applications, remote sensing); globalization (imagining globalization, European transformations); media and culture (rural cultural geographies, cultures of Empire); development (postcolonial Africa, critical resource geographies); environment (ecologial futures, global environmental change).