Secondary Teaching Studies (Geography)

Share your passion for teaching and Geography with our innovative two-year degree course.

Learn how to understand children and young people’s development, and explore the research, policy and practice that surrounds the profession.

You’ll have the chance to experience a range of learning environments, including our Forest School Training Centre where you can work towards Forest School certification.

Alongside this, learn about the key aspects of human and physical geography being taught in the classroom today to give you a rounded understanding of the subject at degree level.

Why study at Hull?

• Fast-track your career: Our accelerated two-year programme is a unique opportunity to gain a first degree while focusing on your future teaching ambitions.

• Learn on-the-job on placement: Boost your employability by taking on a UK or international work placement to help your understanding of education in action.

• Boost your CV with an extra qualification: On top of your English specialism, you’ll have the opportunity to study for Forest School certification.

Where could this take me?

With this foundational degree complete, you’re ready to explore a range of opportunities in schools as an unqualified teacher, or to take the next step towards Qualified Teacher Status such as PGCE.

There are lots of opportunities to use your degree other than in a school, such as working as a tutor, educational consultant or pursuing an educational role in the arts, heritage or local government sectors.

This degree can also open up opportunities for further postgraduate study in a range of subject areas.

Core modules include:
Introduction to Education
Education Theory
Education Specialism
Human Geography: Worlds of Connection and Difference
Planet Earth
Landscapes of the World
Cities and Globalisation
Sustainable Features

The first year of this accelerated degree has a strong focus on thinking critically about what education is, how it differs in different places at different times, the values that underpin and inform it, and developing the skills to reflect on it in thoughtful, insightful and well-informed ways.

It provides opportunity to gain practical experience as well as exploring Geography as your subject of interest, allowing you to develop your knowledge alongside your understanding of how to teach it.

The second year of the programme continue the focus on reflective practice, providing opportunity to visit a range of settings and to meet expert practitioners.

It focusses on key contemporary issues and provides opportunity to develop the skills necessary to research an aspect of education about which you care passionately.

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS