Geography with a Language
(BA) Geography with a Language
Entry for 2025
FHEQ level
This course is set at Level 6 in the national Framework for Higher Education Qualifications.
Course learning outcomes
1. Understand a) the nature of the relationships and processes (contemporary, historical, biophysical) that shape the human characteristics of places (e.g. demographic, economic, social, cultural, political...), and b) how places become differentiated from one another as reflected, for example, in patterns of wealth inequality at the international and sub-national scales.
2. Demonstrate the ability to apply this knowledge and understanding to contemporary problems such as those of third world underdevelopment, inter- and intra-national ethnic conflict, and urban social exclusion, and to the evaluation of policies designed to solve these problems.
3. Be able to explain the characteristics of specific places through reference to a body of locational and ecological concepts and theories using either a) locational analysis which focuses on the
4. Possess sufficient experience of the inter-relatedness of phenomena in geographical space to be able to visualise those phenomena as elements of either socio-spatial or socio-environmental
5. Achieve a critical and self-reflexive understanding of human geography that a) incorporates an awareness of the situatedness of knowledge and the provisional status of accepted theory; b) recognises the significance of representations of people and places for an understanding of social and spatial behaviour; and yet c) develops the bases upon which competing ideas and theories about the nature.
6. Interpret qualitative and quantitative geographical and environmental data, demonstrating numeracy, basic statistical skills, IT skills (e.g. spreadsheets, databases; word proce
7. Demonstrate a good knowledge of how maps are produced and used (cartographic skills).
8. Integrate the skills of the cartographer with those of the computer scientist, specifically to relate spatially-referenced data with place-attribute data through GIS (geographical information systems), remote sensing and related methods.
9. Demonstrate field investigation skills in both environmental and human geography (e.g. historical and contemporary human landscape evolution, land-use and built-form mapping and questionnaire surveys).
10. Reason clearly, critically and logically, and analyse problems and provide solutions for them.
11. Evaluate concepts and theories, judging evidence for and against particular ways of understanding an issue.
12. Prepare and make verbal presentations (with visual aids and working in a group, where appropriate).
13. Demonstrate self-management (e.g. working to deadlines, self-learning), independent thinking and critical reflection, individual research and report-writing skills (geography dissertation).
14. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the syntax, lexis and appropriate registers of Arabic/Chinese/French/German/Italian/Japanese/Spanish
15. communicate effectively, and with a good level of accuracy, in spoken Arabic/Chinese/French/German/Italian/Japanese/Spanish
16. demonstrate awareness and critical appreciation of one or more cultures and societies other than their own
17. CEFR C1 pathway only: mediate effectively in speaking and writing between English and French/Spanish
Full-time course composition
Please note that the University will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver courses and modules in accordance with the descriptions set out here. However, the University keeps its courses and modules under review with the aim of enhancing quality. Some changes may therefore be made to the form or content of courses or modules shown as part of the normal process of curriculum management.
The University reserves the right to make changes to the contents or methods of delivery of, or to discontinue, merge or combine modules, if such action is reasonably considered necessary by the University. If there are not sufficient student numbers to make a module viable, the University reserves the right to cancel such a module. If the University withdraws or discontinues a module, it will use its reasonable endeavours to provide a suitable alternative module.