Geography, BA (Hons)

The study of geography remains highly relevant, addressing landscape formation, population movements, and climate change impacts. Our BA and BSc Geography degrees develop practical, numerical, and computational skills for careers in regional planning, environmental management, and beyond. With strong industry connections, we offer work experience and fieldwork opportunities in areas like the Gower Peninsula, as well as international trips to Austria, Berlin, or Vancouver. Students explore topics such as environmental change, migration, and urban spaces, supported by state-of-the-art facilities including high-performance computing labs.In Years 1-3, you'll study compulsory and optional modules on global shifts, data analysis, and glacial processes, culminating in a dissertation. Assessment involves lectures, seminars, exams, coursework, and fieldwork. Flexibility allows switching between BA and BSc until Year 2, with options for a year abroad or in industry.

In Year 1 you'll study several compulsory modules covering topics such as global environmental change, people place and nation, global shifts and sustainability. You will then choose from optional modules covering geographical skills and methods, writing skills and personal development planning, and topics such as mobilities and migration, urban geography and geology. In Year 2, you'll choose from a range of optional modules covering data analysis, approaches to human and physical geography, and conducting social and environmental research. You'll study topics such as geographic information systems, glacial environments and processes, creative geographies, quaternary environmental change, regional economic development and policy, boundaries and connections, political geographies, urban modelling and geological record of past environments. You'll also have an opportunity to take part in an overseas field trip. In Year 3, 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, glaciology, humid tropical environments and landscapes, meteorology and atmospheric science, plate tectonics and global geophysics, World cities, environmental modelling and the climate of the last 1,000 years. You'll also have the opportunity to undertake an interdisciplinary field trip to the Indian Himalayas (Sikkim).