Study Schemes

BSC Geography [F800]

Academic Year: 2013/2014Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Bursary; The Coleg Incentive Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (80 Credits)

The following modules are core.

Semester 1
EA12210

The Atmosphere And The Water Cycle

GG10610

Earth Surface Environments

GG13000

Key Skills For Geographers

GG14210

Power, Place And Development

Semester 2
GG10410

Global Ecology And Soil Systems

GG10810

Climate Change: Impacts, Perceptions, Adaptations

GG12710

Global Environmental Issues

GG13020

Key Skills For Geographers

Year 1 Options

Core (30 credits). Welsh medium (DA) and English medium (GG) modules. Welsh speaking students are encouraged to take DA11900/10 instead of GG11900/10, DA10110 instead of GG14410, and DA10210 instead of GG10210.

Semester 1
DA10110

Pobl A Lle

DA10210

Cefn Gwlad A'r Ddinas

DA11900

Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 1

GG10210

The City And Country: Processes Of Conflict And Change

GG11900

Level 1 Geography Tutorial

Semester 2
DA11910

Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 1

GG11910

Level 1 Geography Tutorial

GG14410

Place, Culture And Society

Year 1 Options

(10 credits) Students must choose 10 credits from the list below, or from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in IGES or in the university.

Semester 1
EA11510

Planet Earth

EA11600

Rocks And Minerals

EA11710

The Dynamic Earth

Semester 2
DA10810

Amgylchedd Cymru

DA10910

Methodoleg Maes Amgylcheddol

DA12810

Byw Gyda Risg

EA11610

Rocks And Minerals

EA11810

The Earth In Space And Time

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (30 Credits)

The following modules are core.

Semester 1
GG20100

Research Skills In Geography

Semester 2
GG20130

Research Skills In Geography

Year 2 Options

Core (30 credits). Welsh medium (DA) and English medium (GG) modules. Welsh speaking students are encouraged to take DA22100/10 instead of GG22100/10, and DA22400/20 instead of GG22400/20.

Semester 1
DA22100

Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 2

DA22400

Gwaith Maes Daearyddiaeth

GG22100

Level 2 Geography Tutorial

GG22400

Geography Fieldwork

Semester 2
DA22110

Tiwtorial Daearyddiaeth Lefel 2

DA22420

Gwaith Maes Daearyddiaeth

GG22110

Level 2 Geography Tutorial

GG22420

Geography Fieldwork

Year 2 Options

(20 credits) Students must take 20 credits from the modules below. DA28700/20 and GG28700/20 cannot be taken together.

Semester 1
DA28700

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

GG28500

Cultural And Historical Geography

GG28700

Placing Politics

GG29200

Nature, Environment And Sustainability

Semester 2
DA28720

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

GG28520

Cultural And Historical Geography

GG28720

Placing Politics

GG29220

Nature, Environment And Sustainability

Year 2 Options

(20 credits) Students must take 20 credits from the modules below. DA22510 and GG22610 cannot be taken together.

Semester 1
DA22510

Geomorffoleg Afonol

GG21110

Reading The Ice Age Record

GG22610

Catchment Systems

GG23910

Glacial Processes And Landforms

Semester 2
EA20110

Environmental Management

Year 2 Options

(20 credits) Students must choose up to 20 credits from the list below, or from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in IGES, including those in the options list above, or in the university.

Semester 1
DA21200

Profiad Gwaith Daearyddiaeth

GG23410

Sedimentary Environments

Semester 2
DA21210

Profiad Gwaith Daearyddiaeth

DA22710

Hanes Amgylcheddol

EA20410

Hydrochemistry

EA22810

Geohazards

Final Year Options

(40 credits) The following modules are core. Welsh speaking students are encouraged to take DA34000/40 instead of GG34000/40.

Semester 1
DA34000

Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth

GG34000

Geography Dissertation

Semester 2
DA34040

Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth

GG34040

Geography Dissertation

Final Year Options

(80 credits) Students must take 80 credits from the list below, up to 20 credits may be taken from appropriate modules offered in IGES or in the university.

Semester 1
DA31620

Adnoddau Dwr A Hydroleg Bydol

EA30520

Oceanography And Marine Geology

GG30420

River Systems And Global Environmental Change

GG32020

Earth Observation From Satellites And Aircraft

GG32820

Geographical Information Systems

GG33120

Palaeoenvironmental Change Beyond The Ice Sheets

GG33920

Palaeoglaciology

GG37820

Monstrous Geographies

GG37920

Geographies Of Memory

Semester 2
DA32220

Daearyddiaethau Cenedlaetholdeb

EA30420

Volcanic Activity: Hazards And Environmental Change

EA32620

Engineering Geology

EA34120

Welsh Mineral Resources: Origins, Exploitation And Planning

GG30320

Process Glaciology

GG30520

Dynamic Biogeography

GG30920

Monitoring And Modelling Hydrological Systems

GG33020

Soil, Geochemistry And Environment

GG33720

People, Climate And Environment: A Palaeoenvironmental Perspective

GG36720

Territory, Knowledge And Power

GG36820

Geographies Of The Global Countryside

GG37520

Urban Risk And Environmental Resilience

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary