Our degrees offer exciting classroom-based modules, along with opportunities for field trips and study abroad. These modules are designed to inspire your curiosity and cater to a wide range of interests in geography, giving you the chance to explore its many fascinating aspects.
Global Challenges
This first-year module introduces you to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and explores how School of Geography researchers are engaging with the SDGs in their work.
Each week, a different staff member will lead a lecture on a topic based on their research. Previous examples have included:
- Water quality: The risks of pollution and climate change by Dr Virginia Panizzo
- Wildfires in a Changing World by Dr Michela Mariani
- Zero hunger: Feeding 10 billion people by Dr Adam Searle
- Decent work and economic growth by Dr John Morris
After each lecture, you’ll then take part in a Q&A to further understand the staff member's research.
The module is designed to prepare you for more specialist modules in both physical geography and human geography in the second and third years. An awareness of the SDGs is also important for future employment, with many organisations aligning their strategies to the goals.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are inherently geographical, and the Global Challenges module explores how geographical research is working towards achieving these goals. The module allows students to learn more about the research we do in the School of Geography and explore how geographical approaches are key to tackling the complex challenges our world is facing.
Dr Peter Martin
Module Convenor
Global Climate Change
We’ve all heard of climate change but what is really happening to our world and what can we do to reduce future threats? This final-year module provides a big-picture summary of the climate crisis.
You’ll be introduced to the science and issues that surround present and future climate change and its impacts on human society and the natural environment. The module will cover the scientific basis for global climate change together with its impact on society, policy, mitigation and adaptation.
Topics include:
- Projections of future climate change and confidence in them
- Climate policy
- Projected impacts of climate change on society and the natural environment
- Ways of adapting to climate change
- Technologies to reduce climate change
Global Climate Change is an ideal module if you’re interested in working in sustainability, policy making, NGOs, environmental consultancies, or with communities impacted by climate change.
I love that my course is so broad and takes an inter-disciplinary approach. I can combine my analytical skills with essay writing, data handling, GIS software skills, and different theories. Every day as a geographer is different therefore, I never tire of it.
Megan Mahoney
BA Geography
