Human Geography, BA (Hons), with study abroad

Our three-year BA Geography degree focuses on human geography, ideal for students passionate about topics like population dynamics, urbanization, economic development, and the impacts of climate change. You will explore key issues such as global economic processes, migration, creative geographies, and political systems, while developing transferable skills through a year abroad and fieldwork opportunities in locations like Berlin, New York, or Vancouver. Situated near stunning natural areas like the Gower Peninsula, the programme equips you with practical, numerical, and computational skills for diverse careers, taught in state-of-the-art facilities including advanced labs and computer resources.In Year 1, you study compulsory modules on global environmental change and urban geography, with options in geographical skills. Year 2 offers modules on data analysis and human geography approaches, plus an overseas field trip. Year 3 involves studying abroad, and Year 4 includes a dissertation and advanced topics like migration and world cities, culminating in an interdisciplinary field trip to the Indian Himalayas. Assessment combines lectures, seminars, exams, coursework, and practical work.

In Year 1 you'll study several compulsory modules covering topics such as global environmental change, people place and nation, global shifts, colonial and postcolonial geographies, mobilities and migration and urban geography. You will then choose from optional modules covering geographical skills and methods, writing skills and personal development planning, and topics such as sustainability, Earth's changing face and geology. In Year 2, you'll choose from a range of optional modules covering data analysis, approaches to human geography and conducting social research, and topics such as geographic information systems, creative geographies, boundaries and connections, political geographies and urban modelling. You'll also have an opportunity to take part in an overseas field trip. In Year 3, you'll study abroad at one of our partner institutions. In Year 4, you'll undertake your dissertation and choose from a range of optional modules covering topics such as migration, security and humanism, contemporary rural Britain, geographies of national identity, capital and labour in the 21st century, World cities and environmental modelling. You'll also have the opportunity to undertake an interdisciplinary field trip to the Indian Himalayas (Sikkim).