Study Schemes

BSC  Physical Geography [F84F]

Academic Year: 2023/2024Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS00420

Environmental Management

GS01120

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS09520

How to be a Student 1

Semester 2
GS00820

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS09320

How to be a Student 2

Year 1  Options

Choose 20 credits (one module)

Semester 1
GS09720

Introduction to Social Science

Semester 2
GS09620

The ‘Othered' Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

GS09820

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 2  Core (120 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS10000

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10000

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS11520

How to Build a Planet

or
DA11520

Sut i Greu Planed

GS12500

An introduction to Earth Materials

GS13000

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

Semester 2
GS10020

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10020

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS10520

Earth Surface Environments

GS10720

Life on Earth

GS12520

An introduction to Earth Materials

GS13020

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

Part 2 Rules

Year 3  Core (90 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS21100

Physical Geography and Environmental Science Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

GS22010

Physical Analysis of Natural Materials

GS23510

The Frozen Planet

GS23810

Quantitative Data Analysis

GS25210

Catchment Systems

or
DA22510

Geomorffoleg Afonol

Semester 2
GS21010

Chemical Analysis of Natural Materials

GS21120

Physical Geography and Environmental Science Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

GS21910

Reconstructing Past Environments

GS23710

Geographical Information Systems

Year 3  Options

Choose 30 credits

Semester 1
GS22600

Advanced Earth Materials

GS22700

Fundamentals of Geochemistry

Semester 2
BG21920

Bwyd, Ffermio a'r Amgylchedd

GS22620

Advanced Earth Materials

GS22720

Fundamentals of Geochemistry

GS28910

Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS34000

Geography Dissertation

or
DA34000

Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth

Semester 2
GS34040

Geography Dissertation

or
DA34040

Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth

Final Year  Options

(80 credits) Students may choose 80 credits from the list below. Up to 20 credits may be taken from appropriate modules offered by DGES or in the university.

Semester 1
GS30320

Environmental geochemistry and biogeochemistry

GS32020

Monitoring our Planet's Health from Space

GS33420

Glaciers and Ice Sheets

Semester 2
DA31720

Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig

GS30420

Volcanic Activity: Hazards and Environmental Change

GS31120

Applied Environmental Management

GS33720

People, Climate and Environment: a Palaeoenvironmental Perspective

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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