Geography within Natural Sciences 2024-2025

This pages is primarily intended for existing students. It consists of modules available to Natural Sciences students, Joint-Honours regulations and general advice (which includes links to Departmental advice.)

The following lists the module code and the title of each module by the level of each module - clicking on the link will take you to further details listed in the Faculty Handbook.

The last digit of the module code indicates whether the module is single, double or triple. The level indicates the year in which modules are normally taken, but it is often the case that students take modules from the adjacent level beneath the year of study. Visit the Subjects page for the general overarching rules and structure.

Please note that the modules on offer and the requirements for progression can change from year to year and that the only combinations of modules that are guaranteed to fit in the timetable are those splits between the two departments on an approved Joint Honours route (MSci and BSc).

Within Natural Sciences, Geography has BSc Joint-Honours programmes with: Biology; Earth Sciences.

In BSc students' final year, they are required to take no less than 20 credits and no more than 60 credits of Capstone Modules. These modules are denoted with G

Geography modules available to Natural Sciences students

Level 1 modules

Planet Under Pressure (GEOG1061)
Human Geography (GEOG1071)
Physical Geography (GEOG1081)
Introduction To Geographical Research (ba) (GEOG1222)
Introduction To Geographical Research (bsc) (GEOG1232)
Geographies Of Crisis (GEOG1241)
Introduction To Climate Change (GEOG1261)

Level 2 modules

Scientific Research In Geography (GEOG2462)
Social Research In Geography (GEOG2472)
Urban Geography (GEOG2511)
Managing River Catchments (GEOG2521)
Glaciers And Glaciation (GEOG2531)
Geographies Of Development (GEOG2541)
Social And Cultural Geography (GEOG2561)
Reconstructing Environmental Change (GEOG2571)
Political Geography (GEOG2581)
Handling Geographic Information (GEOG2591)
Mountain Landscapes (GEOG2611)
Theory And Concepts In Contemporary Human Geography (GEOG2621)
Economic Geography (GEOG2641)
Climate Change: Geographical Perspectives (GEOG2661)

Level 3 modules

Race And Racism In The Planetary Crisis (Term 1) (GEOG30A7)
Contesting Citizenship; Activism, Advocacy, Asylum (Term 2) (GEOG30C7)
Geographies Of Life And Living (Term 1) (GEOG30F7)
Critical Resource Geographies (Term 2) (GEOG30G7)
Glacial Sedimentary Environments (Term 1) (GEOG30H7)
Earth Surface Processes And Landscape Evolution (Term 2) (GEOG30I7)
Ice Age Environments (Term 2) (GEOG30K7)
The Politics Of Population: Environment, Reproduction, Difference (Term 1) (GEOG30L7)
Mediterranean Environments (GEOG30M1)
East Asian Political Geographies (Term 1) (GEOG30N7)
Living Landscapes: Stability And Change In The Anthropocene (Term 1) (GEOG30P7)
Geographies Of Humanitarianism And The Human (Term 1) (GEOG30Q7)
Platform Geographies (Term 2) (GEOG30R7)
Critical Geopolitics: Difference, Affect And Power (Term 2) (GEOG30S7)
Cryospheric Change And Risk (Term 1) (GEOG30T7)
Geographies For The End Of The World (Term 2) (GEOG30U7)
Global Urbanism (Term 2) (GEOG30V7)
Sea-level Change And Coastal Evolution (GEOG3191)
Dissertation In Geography AG (GEOG3232)
Remote Sensing (GEOG3261)
Dissertation (double Module) In Geography BG (GEOG3432)
River Dynamics (GEOG3461)
Alpine Landscapes And Processes (GEOG3491)
Berlin: Culture, Politics And Contestation (GEOG3501)
The Arctic (GEOG3521)
Neoliberal Life (Term 2) (GEOG3537)
Chicago: Sites Of Global Change (GEOG3551)
Jerusalem: Political Geographies Of Settler Colonialism (GEOG3581)
Oceans Past And Present (GEOG3641)
Iceland: Field Research In Glacial Environments (GEOG3691)
Mountain Hazards (GEOG3701)
Landslides: Mechanisms, Hazard And Risk (Term 1) (GEOG3807)
Antarctic Environments (Term 2) (GEOG3817)
Peatland Landscapes And Management (Term 2) (GEOG3947)
Geographies Of Money And Finance (Term 1) (GEOG3957)
Catchment Modelling (Term 1) (GEOG3987)
Feminist Geographies: Intimacy, Body, State (Term 1) (GEOG3997)

Requirements for Joint Honours (BSc Programmes)

Physical Geography

Year 1	40 credits: Introduction To Geographical Research (bsc) (GEOG1232)
Year 2	60 credits: Scientific Research In Geography (GEOG2462) and at least 20 credits from: Handling Geographic Information (GEOG2591); Climate Change: Geographical Perspectives (GEOG2661); Contested Environments (GEOG2551); Glaciers And Glaciation (GEOG2531); Mountain Landscapes (GEOG2611); Reconstructing Environmental Change (GEOG2571).
Year 3	40 credits: Modules taken from Dissertation (double Module) In Geography B (GEOG3432); Iceland: Field Research In Glacial Environments (GEOG3691); Natural Hazards, Risk And Resilience (GEOG3621); Oceans Past And Present (GEOG3641); Remote Sensing (GEOG3261); River Dynamics (GEOG3461); Sea-level Change And Coastal Evolution (GEOG3191); The Arctic (GEOG3521); Antarctic Environments (GEOG3817); Catchment Modelling (GEOG3987); Glacial Sedimentary Environments (GEOG30H7); Ice Age Environments (GEOG30K7); Landslides: Mechanisms, Hazard And Risk (GEOG3807); Peatland Landscapes And Management (GEOG3947).

Advice for progression and other aspects

Department advice: SharePoint
Natural Sciences advice

Year 1	Introduction To Geographical Research (bsc) (GEOG1232) is recommended to keep open the possibility of taking Dissertation In Geography A (GEOG3232) in Year 3. Taking no or one module of Geography gives progression to modules in later years. Progression from: GEOG1232; GEOG3232.
Year 2	Scientific Research In Geography (GEOG2462) is required to keep open a dissertation in the final year and to ensure you are following the "Joint-Honours" route. Otherwise, this module is not compulsory for the more flexible Natural Sciences degree. Progression from: GEOG2462.