The course aims to provide students with an understanding of the basic concepts, skills and methods of geographical enquiry, and their application to contemporary environmental issues and problems in a variety of regional settings. The course has been constructed to reflect the traditional role of geography as a bridge subject between the environmental and social sciences. In the Human Geography component topics have been chosen to demonstrate the usefulness of a specifically geographical viewpoint on matters of contemporary interest and relevance.
Students also undertake a project developing social investigation skills.
An optional module called Society and Environment is concerned with renewable and non-renewable resources and human interference in natural ecosystems. These modules feed in directly from the themes developed in the Principles of Human Geography at Level 1. All of these modules emphasise the process of geography in a European and Developing World context. At Level 3 emphasis is placed upon the role and value of a geographical perspective as applied to contemporary environmental and social policy issues. There are two main themes.