Geography (W81)

In this diploma, you’ll be engaging with geographical topics from a range of different perspectives and investigating the key issues such as poverty, climate change, migration and urbanisation that are affecting our world today. You'll discover how people seek positive solutions to environmental challenges at home and around the world. In doing so, you’ll develop your understanding of the ways in which the natural and human environments are related and interact.

Key features of the course

• Develops your understanding of interrelationships between human activity and environmental change.

• Explore how environmental and societal issues are entangled in cultural, economic, social, and political terms.

• Become more effective in gathering and communicating geographical information to different audiences.

• Learn how social science perspectives change the way we understand and respond to the major environmental challenges of our time.

Course Modules

This geography diploma has two stages, each comprising 120 credits.

In Stage 1, you'll begin by choosing between an interdisciplinary study of environmental issues from across the world and a broad introduction to the social sciences. You’ll then explore important global challenges: the climate crisis, legacies of colonialism and enslavement, and technological change. You’ll investigate how the social sciences and geographical thinking help us understand those challenges, as well as reflect on how you can respond to them as an active citizen.

At Stage 2, you’ll begin by using the insights of the natural and the social sciences to explore why environmental issues such as biodiversity loss, climate change, food production, and water security pose such significant challenges. Drawing on recent geographical thinking you’ll then explore how places are made and remade through studying the changing geographies of the United Kingdom.