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Geography Joint Honours – (B.A.)
University of Birmingham
Life and Environmental Sciences| Application Deadline: | None, but early application advised | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 3,805 - ≈ € 12,790 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Birmingham / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Birmingham
A Joint Honours degree programme involves the study of two subjects to Honours degree level. If you study a subject in a Joint Honours programme, you work at exactly the same level and to the same academic standard as students taking that subject in a Single Honours programme. Joint Honours students are simply required to choose fewer topics from the range of options available in each half of the programme.
When you read Geography at Birmingham, you combine a sound academic training with an insight into practical, social, economic and environmental issues. You refine perspectives and develop skills in a degree programme that encourages the use of imagination and observation to resolve real problems affecting people and environments.
This is one of the UK’s biggest Geography departments, with a large number of staff offering you a wide range of specialisms. Excellent facilities, including a large computer cluster, support your learning. There are well-equipped laboratories including state of the art water quality and isotope facilities, microscope rooms, a map library containing over 200,000 maps from all over the world and our new Earth Imaging Laboratory.
Key facts Joint Honours combinations:
You can study Geography as part of a Joint Honours degree with the following subjects:
* African Studies (Joint Honours UCAS code LT75)
* Archaeology and Ancient History (Joint Honours UCAS code LV74)
* Economics (Joint Honours UCAS code LL71)
* French Studies (Joint Honours UCAS code LR71)
* Geology (See Geology and Geography Joint Honours BSc)
* German Studies (Joint Honours UCAS code LR72)
* Hispanic Studies (Joint Honours UCAS code LR74)
* History (Joint Honours UCAS code LV71)
* Italian Studies (Joint Honours UCAS code LR73)
* Portuguese (Joint Honours UCAS code LR75)
* Russian Studies (Joint Honours UCAS code LR77)
* Urban and Regional Planning (See Geography and Urban and Regional Planning Joint Honours BSc)
Duration: 3 years, 4 years if combined with a modern language
Start date: September 2012
Contents
First year
The modular structure allows you maximum flexibility in developing your own interests without channelling you into decisive choices too early. In the first year you are exposed to the main principles of human and physical geography, to global environmental issues, and various practical skills. You also explore the contemporary problems of Birmingham, using the city as a real-world laboratory. The first semester also features residential fieldwork in human and physical geography.
Second year
You are now introduced to specialist techniques such as computer cartography and the use of databases and spreadsheets. You learn how to develop a research proposal, which may be the starting point for your dissertation in the final year. Training in more advanced fieldwork skills is provided by courses held in European centres. You also choose from optional modules in many different branches of Geography.
Year abroad
Joint Honours language students have a year abroad between their second and fourth years.
Final year
In your final year you select from a wide range of modules that provide the more specialised knowledge and skills in the areas of Geography that appeal to you.
Teaching and assessment
We recognise that students respond to different methods of teaching. Various approaches are used – from lectures to seminars and fieldwork as well as online study. You meet regularly with academic tutors in small groups.
Essay and project work form a significant part of the assessment for all modules offered by the department. Alongside examinations, we also assess your seminar presentations, laboratory or practical exercises and poster presentations.
Career opportunities
Geography graduates are highly valued by employers for their impressive range of skills and knowledge. You will have developed your abilities to collect and analyse data, to express yourself clearly and logically in both written and oral forms, and to present supporting evidence graphically.
Many of our graduates go on to further training in areas as diverse as planning, management, environmental consultancy, water quality, meteorology and teaching. Others go directly into employment in a variety of sectors including banking, surveying, recreational planning, the water industry and international charities working on human and environmental problems in the developing world.
Please read the entry for the other subject you wish to combine with Geography.
Related links
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences website:
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Number of A levels required: 3
Typical offer: AAB–BBB
Required subjects and grades: A level Geography
General Studies: accepted
Additional information:
Typical offer grades are for guidance only, and will depend on the subjects you are combining. Please read the entries for both subjects. Where there is a disparity between the typical offer for Subject A and the typical offer for Subject B, the higher offer should be taken as the usual offer for the combination of the two.
Other qualifications are considered |
International students:
International Baccalaureate Diploma: 30–36 points
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | High School diploma |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 93 |
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