Details of awards: BSc (Hons) Geography including Foundation Study Framework 2020 entry
Name of award: BSc (Hons) Geography

In order to achieve the named award above, students must meet all requirements of this award map.

STAGE 1a

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
FDN018	Transition to University – Learning to Learn	40	Compulsory	None
FDN020	Investigating Your Subject	20	Compulsory	None
FDN017	Foundations in Life Sciences	20	Compulsory	None
FDN021	Negotiated Learning Project	40	Compulsory	None
Students must take all compulsory modules

STAGE 1b

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
GEO1107	The Physical Environment	20	Compulsory	None
GEO1110	A Sustainable Community	20	Compulsory	None
GEO1006	Introducing Human Geographies	20	Compulsory	None
GEO1013	Geographical Techniques	20	Compulsory	None
GEO1010	Geography and Development	20	Compulsory	None
GEO1108	Geohazards	20	Compulsory	None

Students must take all compulsory modules


STAGE 2

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
GEO2038	Research Methods	20	Compulsory	None
GEO2028	Issues in Human Geography	20	Compulsory	None
GEO2104	USA Field Module	20	Compulsory	None
GEO2037	Landscape Processes	20	Designated	None
GEO2111	Weather and Climate	20	Designated	None
ENV2103	Biogeography	20	Designated	None
GEO2030	Transport and Mobility	20	Designated	None
GEO2032	Populations and Migrations	20	Designated	None

Students must take the compulsory modules plus three designated modules


STAGE 3

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
GEO4008	Geography Dissertation	40	Compulsory	GEO2038 or GEO2028
GEO3131	Career Planning and Employability	20	Compulsory	None
GEO3108	Communicating Climate Change	20	Designated	None
GEO3124	Water Resource Management	20	Designated	None
GEO3007	Children's Geographies	20	Designated	None
GEO3031	Geographies of Sport	20	Designated	None
GEO3140	Monitoring The Earth’s Surface*	20	Designated	GEO2131 or GEO2038

Students must take the compulsory modules, plus three designated modules

FDN and Level 4 modules are split across Stage 1a and Stage1b – 80 FDN credits/40 L4 credits at Stage 1a and 40 FDN credits/80 L4 credits at Stage 1b.  The University’s Supplementary Regulations govern how FDN modules are regulated and how progression from Stage 1a and Stage 1b and from Stage 1a and Stage 1b to Stage 2 is managed.

Students who do not complete the Honours Degree will be eligible for an Ordinary Degree in the named subject upon successful completion of a minimum of 60 Level 6 credits. These can be from any Level 6 modules, whether identified as compulsory or designated.



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25/11/22

* new module