Geography and Environment
Our students benefit from high-quality, research-informed teaching ensuring the very best learning experience. Studying one of our Geography courses at 含羞草视频 will prepare you for a wide range of exciting and diverse career opportunities.
*based on data from the National Student Survey 2023. All underpinning survey responses that contribute to this can be found on the OfS website
Geography and Environment at 含羞草视频
We offer modules that will develop your understanding of our rapidly changing planet. Through the interlinked strands of human and physical geography, our courses bridge the social sciences and natural sciences. With dedicated academic, research and support staff, we offer a fantastic learning environment.
Our academic staff are driving forward intellectual agendas in physical and human geography, as well as helping to shape national and international policy. This expertise ensures that the knowledge you are getting throughout your degree is at the cutting-edge of scientific research and focused on some of the most important issues in society today.
Field trips
Fieldwork is an essential experience for all of our Geography students and contributes to both effective learning and personal development as well as creating some memorable experiences.
In the first year of your degree programme you will participate in a residential fieldcourse in the UK as part of your introduction to field-based research methods in human and physical geography. All essential costs of this field trip (accommodation, travel, food) are covered as part of your tuition fees. In the second and final years of each degree course, we offer optional residential fieldcourses to a variety of locations. Choosing to do them will incur an additional course cost. Please note that destinations are renewed periodically and are therefore subject to change.
Our courses
Links with industry
All our undergraduate students have the opportunity to undertake a professional work placement during their degree.
In recent years students in the School have completed placements with BP, Volkswagen, Molson Coors, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Samsung Electronics, Bosch, Confederation of British Industry, PwC, National Grid, Renault, Department of Work and Pensions, Food Standards Agency, Bedfordshire Police, Instron and Sky.
Students also have an opportunity to spend a year (or a single semester of their degree) abroad by securing paid work teaching English to school children or studying at a partner university
Facilities
Modern facilities provide the perfect environment for all types of classes, with the latest technology and laboratory equipment available to carry out cutting-edge geographical research. There are also study areas where students can work independently or in groups.
Accreditation
All our eligible geography courses (BA Geography; BSc Geography; BSc Geography with Economics) are accredited by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Career opportunities
We pride ourselves in supporting our students to fulfil their potential and to graduate as confident, capable, adaptable individuals equipped with the skills that are demanded by today’s employers.
Employability skills are embedded in all our courses and our graduates are appointed in posts across a range of industries and sectors.
Our students
Languages
We provide a range of language modules in French, German or Spanish and Mandarin Chinese from complete beginners level upwards.
Through your language modules you will practise a range of transferable skills that will help you in your own field: face-to-face communication, formal and informal presentations, negotiating, convincing and mediating, producing multi-media materials, summarising and conveying information in writing. You will develop skills in your chosen language in small, interactive classes, and will gain greater cultural competence as you move up the levels.