The BA degree in Geography is based on a three-year course. In the first year, all students take the same options with papers in human geography, historical geography, physical geography, environmental geography and the history of geography.
Students also take some practical classes in the methods and techniques of analytical geography.
At the end of the first year students are examined on the five papers and together with the marks they receive for their practical work, this makes up their IA result. In the second year of the degree, students are offered a structured choice of courses. It is possible at second year to specialise a little more. The choice of courses is somewhat wider and many of them concern a particular region of the world or specific sub-branch of geography. For example, there is a course on the Geography of Melanesia and another on The Historical Geography of North America.