BA Human Geography [L700]

Academic Year 2024/2025 September 2024 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards The Coleg Incentive Scholarship;

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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

Year 1 Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS10000

Living in a Dangerous World
Module in Welsh▼

GS10220

Conflict and Change: the making of urban and rural spaces
Module in Welsh▼

GS13000

Researching the World: data collection and analysis
Module in Welsh▼

Semester 2
GS10020

Living in a Dangerous World
Module in Welsh▼

GS13020

Researching the World: data collection and analysis
Module in Welsh▼

GS14220

Place and Identity

Year 1 Options

Students must choose one of two pathways. Students cannot mix modules across pathways

Year 1 Options

Pathway 1 - Sociology (Arts). Students must take GA15120 and GA16120

Semester 1
GS15120

Thinking Sociologically

Semester 2
GS16120

Key Concepts in Sociology

Year 1 Options

Pathway 2 - Geography (Science). Students must take GS11520 or DA11520 (dependent on language preference) and GS10520

Semester 1
DA11520

Sut i Greu Planed

GS11520

How to Build a Planet

Semester 2
GS10520

Earth Surface Environments

Year 2 Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS20510

Social Research Methods
Module in Welsh▼

GS22920

Placing Culture

Semester 2
GS20410

Concepts for Geographers

GS23020

Placing Politics
Module in Welsh▼

Year 2 Options

Choose 40 credits

Semester 1
DA20820

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

GS20220

Genders and Sexualities

GS23810

Quantitative Data Analysis

Semester 2
GS23710

Geographical Information Systems

GS28910

Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society

Year 2 Options

Students must take one of these modules.

Semester 1
DA25400

Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes

GS21500

Human Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

Semester 2
DA25420

Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes

GS21520

Human Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS34000

Geography Dissertation
Module in Welsh▼

Semester 2
GS34040

Geography Dissertation
Module in Welsh▼

Final Year Options

Students may choose 80 credits from the following modules. Up to 20 credits may be taken from appropriate modules offered in DGES or in the university.

Semester 1
DA32220

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

GS33320

Everyday Social Worlds

GS36220

Modern British Landscapes

GS37520

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

Semester 2
DA31720

Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig

GS30020

The psychosocial century

GS36820

The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives

GS37920

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power