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Course code
MA021
Attendance
Full time
Duration
2 years
Intake
September only
Geography is an engaging and flexible course allowing you to study the relationships between human populations and their physical environments at a variety of levels from local to global.
You will consider your own role in relation to the key issues studied, as geography plays a huge part in all our everyday lives. Jobs may be found in all areas, from drilling for oil in the middle of the ocean, to conservation work in tropical ecosystems. Geographers help to find natural resources and research into alternative energy technologies. With qualifications in Geography, you can help change the future.
As part of your course you will have the opportunity to engage in practical fieldwork activities.
- Landscape systems
- Rebranding and placemaking
- Earth’s life support systems
- Carbon and water cycles
- Disease dilemmas
- Disease diffusion and eradication
- Hazardous Earth
- Earthquakes and volcanoes
- Global migration
- Globalisation and flows of ideas
- Powers and borders
- Sovereignty and territorial integrity
- Geographical skills
- Coursework (fieldwork skills)
Assessment will be 80% exams and 20% coursework - investigative geography
Career opportunities may include:
- Geographer
- Cartographer
- Urban Planner
- Park Ranger
- Ecologist
- Geomorphologist
- Land Acquisition
- Teacher
- Climatologist
- Meteorologist
- Sustainability Consultant
- Logistics and Distribution
Some
trips may include additional costs.
Positive Futures is a set of essential qualities, embedded throughout your study programme, that we seek to develop in all students:
- Commitment
- Collaboration
- Confidence
- Resilience
You will also engage in the Positive Futures Careers Programme, developing key employability skills through a diverse range of activities including work placements, volunteering, employer talks, industry study visits and employment and university fairs.
For A-level Geography: Grade 9-5 English Language; Grade 9-4 Geography (if studied)
As a Bury College student you will have access to a wide range of enrichment opportunities which will contribute to your personal growth and development and support your academic studies.
These may include:
- Art Club
- Chess Club
- Dance, Drama and Singing Workshops
- Duke of Edinburgh Award
- Gaming Hub
- Music Club
- Pride Club
- Student Ambassador Scheme
- A wide range of sport including Badminton, Cricket, Football, Fitness Training, Nerf, Netball, Volleyball and Table Tennis.
Please Note: We attempt to ensure that all information contained within this website is correct and up-to-date. However, some details may change as we review and update our provision. Although every effort is made to provide the teaching, examination, assessment and other services detailed on this website and in our other publications, Bury College cannot guarantee the provision of such programmes, services, facilities and fees. Bury College reserves the right to amend, withdraw, alter or amalgamate any of the courses, locations and facilities detailed within at any time. Should circumstances require such amendments, Bury College undertakes to use all reasonable steps to minimise the resultant disruption to those services and most importantly to students.
