Geography (Joint Honours)

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What is joint honours?

With joint honours, you can study for an honours degree in two or even three subjects. Find out more about joint honours, including what subjects you can combine with this one.

Why choose this course?

You'll be offered a broad specialist module choice (including overseas fieldwork) and the freedom to choose the amount of Physical and/or Human Geography you want to study.

Our staff are friendly and supportive and will equip you with a range of intellectual, personal and technical skills.

About the course

Geography is an exciting and challenging subject which studies the complex relationships between human beings and their environment. It provides you with an understanding of both physical processes and socio-cultural systems and their roles in environmental change.

After the first stage, you'll have a wide choice of modules in the physical, human and development aspects of Geography or a combination of these. In both major and joint degree combinations, you'll study geographical data handling/research methods and complete fieldwork, which you can choose according to your modules. We offer Geography as either a major, joint or minor subject.

Find out more about what subjects and modules you'll be studying...

Your career

Geography offers you a wide range of opportunities in commerce, public service, teaching, research and industry. The official first destination statistics regularly show that less than 10% of our geographers are still looking for work within six months of graduating.

What our students say

"Best three years of my life with wonderful supportive lecturers and tutors who made the course enjoyable and entertaining. The choices of modules allowed you to focus on the aspects of Geography you were really interested in but included a broad range of topics so you didn't limit your study. I particularly enjoyed the field studies abroad where you obtained your hands on experience, which is essential with understanding Geography."

How you'll learn

Each single module is worth 150 hours of student study. Class contact time (lectures, tutorials and practicals etc) could be anywhere between 1 and 4 hours per week for each module. The remainder of the time is spent undertaking directed reading, making notes and doing assignments.

A typical module may consist of a 1 hour lecture followed (after a coffee break) by a laboratory or group practical exercise session per week. The course is primarily delivered using lectures, hands on practicals / demonstrations, tutorials, self directed exercises and field work.

How you're assessed

All Geography modules are either 100% coursework or 50% coursework and 50% written examination. Coursework assignments vary considerably in nature as we try to ensure students are exposed to a range of assessment methods. Coursework assignments can be individual or group based and typically include essays, reports, oral presentations, posters and computer based tests. We use both seen and unseen written examinations.

Fieldtrips

Field work is an important part of the programme. All fieldwork is associated with particular modules, many of which are optional. Most fieldwork involves half or full day trips to locations around the region (including Derby, Nottingham and the Peak District). In the first year there is a weekend residential field course to Skegness, Lincolnshire (Geographical Methods). In the third year, overseas residential fieldwork destinations include Brussels, Belgium (Applied Transport Geography) and Agadir, Morocco (Environment, Landscape and Place).

Work placements

An optional vocational (work placement) module is available by negotiation in the third year.

Start dates

If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in:

September 2012

If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in:

September 2012

UCAS code

Popular courses that can be combined with Geography include:

Business Management
Sociology
American Studies
Law
English
Human Resource Management
Creative Writing
Architectural Design
Geology
Biology

Fees

This is a resource intensive course.

UK/EU students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with a classroom based subject it will cost £6,995 per year.
If you combine this subject with another resource intensive subject or a specialist subject it will cost £7,495 per year.

Part time:

You usually take 18 of modules in total for your course

Modules from classroom based subjects will cost £875 per module.
Modules from resource intensive subjects will cost £935 per module.
Modules from specialist subjects will cost £1,000 per module.

International students

Full time:

If you combine this subject with a classroom based subject it will cost £9,700 per year.
If you combine this subject with another resource intensive subject or a specialist subject it will cost £9,975 per year.

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

More information about our fees for September 2012 and the support available