Geography and Environmental Science (R16)

This degree will help you understand and consider responses to urgent environmental challenges, including climate change, globalisation, development, biodiversity loss, migration and urbanisation. It takes a holistic approach, combining geography and environmental science. You’ll discover the complexities of our relationship with the natural environment by exploring topics like deforestation, sustainable water-resource management, pollution control, conservation and governance. Throughout this journey, you’ll examine the consequences and implications of environmental change for sustainability and learn about the social and natural processes and interactions operating in different environments.

Key features of the course

• Accredited by the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES)

• Develop your understanding of the interrelationships between human activity and environmental change

• Use geography and science concepts and theories to make sense of environmental challenges

• Enhance your employability by working between the social and natural sciences

• Build analytical and reasoning skills needed for assessing environmental evidence

Course Modules

This geography and environmental science degree has three stages, each comprising 120 credits.

Stage 1: You’ll begin with two 60-credit modules that introduce global environmental challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss and sustainability, while developing your understanding of key scientific concepts, methods and investigative skills across the natural sciences.

Stage 2: You’ll study two 60-credit modules that deepen your knowledge of environmental systems, exploring processes that shape the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and ecosystems, and examining the complex relationships between the environment and society from a geographical and social science perspective.

Stage 3: You’ll complete your studies with two 60-credit modules focused on environmental policy and environmental change, analysing major global challenges and exploring how political, economic and scientific perspectives inform responses to issues such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
• Water and Environmental Management, Chartered Institution of
• Environmental Sciences, Institute of