Specialist fieldtrips are organised for human and physical geography undergraduates in their second year. BA geographers go to Montpellier in France, while BSc geographers go to either Fuengirola or Roquetas in Spain. Dr Jim Hogg discusses Mediterranean desertification with a student in the Spainish badlands. The trips build on lecture courses students take in the first half of their degrees to provide a better understanding of issues such as landscape destruction.
Students develop a number of practical skills during the fieldtrips.
Here students survey a badland area. Following surveying, students learn how to interpret the sedimentary sequences they've measured in terms of landscape evolution and climate change. Of course, one of the best things about fieldtrips is getting to know your fellow students. The second year trip is often one of graduates' most enduring memories of their time at Leeds.