Geography
BSc (Hons) Environmental Geography BA/BSc (Hons) Geography
What’s it about?
Our Geography degrees cover much of the wide diversity of the subject and allow the study of contemporary issues, as well as covering the basic underlying principles.
Environmental Geography
If you are interested in rivers, glaciers and mountains then this programme is for you. You will get a firm grounding in geographical principles and a range of subject specific intellectual and practical skills.
Geography
Take the BSc degree if you prefer physical geography. If you wish to add some human geography and enjoy studying sustainability and environmental and social justice issues, at local to global scales, then BA Geography will be your choice.
There are great opportunities for field study in the UK and overseas. These extend from one and two-day visits to the Pennines to residential field courses in Copenhagen, the Swiss Alps in summer, and the French Alps in the ski season. You can climb a 4000m peak, cross a glacier, or perfect your snowboarding. Best of all, these field trips are free!
Small-group teaching is a feature of Geography at Salford and there are strong links between the content of the degree programmes and staff members’ research interests.
What will I learn?
Year 1 lays the foundations of field and laboratory work; develops study skills, IT, data handling and interpersonal skills; and introduces the main elements of the relevant areas. Year 2 extends knowledge and understanding and increases specialisation. It also introduces practical work in glaciology and Geographical Information Systems.
Modules include: • Water Resources: Clean and Dirty Water • Urban Geography with fieldwork • Earth Surface Processes • Alpine Environments • Transport Geographies • Glacial Systems • Town Planning and Development Control • Glaciology and Hydrology • Geographical Information Systems
Environmental Geography includes modules in aquatic environments such as hydrology, glaciers and mountains and also freshwater and marine ecology, coasts and estuaries.
You will be able to choose from modules including: Scandinavian cities with fieldwork and the glaciation of North Yorkshire.
In the long vacation between years 2 and 3 you will spend a few weeks undertaking fieldwork to collect data on which your dissertation and specialised modules in year 3 will be based.
You will have the opportunity to work on glaciers in the French and Swiss Alps with the internationally renowned Alpine Glacier Project, on urban geography in Scandinavia, on field courses and for your dissertation. Fieldwork for dissertations can also be undertaken in a variety of other overseas locations. There are European exchange programmes available, for example in Hydrology for Aquatic Environment students at Freiburg in the Black Forest in Germany, where the teaching is in English. All EU exchanges are supported by an Erasmus grant.
“I chose to study geography because of my passion to travel. This course offers so much in terms of field work and the chance to go and experience new places. It covers such a diverse subject range -
I have learnt far more than I
thought! My favorite parts have been the field trips - climbing across glaciers and of course, nights out with new friends.
In the future, I will hopefully enroll to a PGCE course which will then let me teach geography at high school.”
Joanna Dodd BSc (Hons) Geography
How will I learn? Learning opportunities are varied and you will learn through a combination of lectures, small-group tutorials, practical sessions, field courses, guided reading, assignments and preparation of your dissertation on a topic of your own choice.
Can I get work experience?
You will be encouraged to take an additional year of work experience between years 2 and 3 in an industrial, governmental or research establishment.
Where can I get a job?
You will develop a range of skills including report writing, presentation, the ability to interpret data and the application of IT, which make Geography graduates highly employable.
As well as pursuing careers in geography, water and environment-related areas, Salford graduates have gone on to work in marketing, management, consultancy, transport, planning, media, policy, regulation, teaching and research. Many of our students continue on to postgraduate study, including research Masters and PhDs.
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