Covering physical landscapes, the natural environment and global change, our Geography BSc (Hons) course can show you how our world is changing.

• This course focuses on the dynamics of physical landscapes and their links with people and places. We will cover the natural environment – landforms, glaciers, rivers and coasts, together with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere.

Why choose this course?

• Coventry University has taught geography for over 40 years.
• Current research expertise in flood risk, storm water management, sea level change, quaternary environmental change, and ecological monitoring and management.
• Excellent support for, and track record, in employability.
• Opportunities to participate in challenging and exciting residential field trips each year, exploring the UK and overseas*.
• Large range of optional modules allows you to tailor your degree to suit your interests with topics such as environmental change and management, hazards, biodiversity and conservation, planning and sustainability, Geographical Information Systems and remote sensing.
• To augment field trip experiences, you will be taught in the Simulation Centre, which is among the most advanced interactive people training and development centres in the UK. Its cutting-edge technology which is unique in the UK, its Learning Curve interactive screen and real-life scenarios using specially-trained actors, can not only improve skills but help develop new ways of working in otherwise inaccessible environments.

How you’ll learn

Actual teaching contact hours will vary depending on the level of study and the requirements of a particular semester. In a typical week your contact hours will be divided amongst:

• Personal tutorials and small group teaching.
• Medium group teaching (e.g. seminars, tutorial sessions, lab sessions and workshops).
• Large group teaching (lectures).

In addition, you will be expected to undertake significant self-directed study each week depending on the demands of individual modules. The number of contact hours may vary from semester to semester, however, on average, it is likely to be around 12-14 contact hours per week.

Assessment

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will could vary depending upon the module. Assessment methods include coursework reports, essays, practicals, presentations, posters, formal examinations and project work.

The Coventry University assessment strategy endeavours to ensure that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards the achieving the intended learning outcomes.

Job ready

On successful completion, you will have knowledge of:

• The nature, practical value and application of geography and the earth sciences and their concepts, methods and techniques.
• The constitution and character of space, place and landscape.
• Concepts of spatial and temporal scale, variation and change in the human and physical worlds.
• Reciprocal relationships between physical and human aspects of environments and landscapes.
• Patterns, processes and consequences of uneven development, difference and inequality.
• Nature, mitigation and management of contemporary environmental problems and hazards.

On successful completion, you will be able to:

• Plan, design and execute a piece of rigorous research or enquiry using appropriate methods and strategies of acquiring, interpreting and analysing information.
• Conduct field and laboratory work together with data collection and associated investigative and analytical skills.
• Recognise the moral and ethical issues involved in debates and inquiries.
• Show awareness of how skills and training can be applied to work of a geographical nature.
• Observe, contextualise and analyse information through field and laboratory studies.
• Demonstrate a range of transferable professional skills including: intellectual and problem-solving skills; effective team work; initiative and responsibility your own learning and development; self-reflection; time management and personal organisation, including working to deadlines; excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.

International experience opportunities

Geography is a global subject and international themes are core to our teaching. As such, much of our teaching relies on using case studies from overseas and your lecturers will draw on case studies related to their research from around the world. For example, previous cohorts have considered ecological monitoring and management in southern Africa and in the case of South America looked at the impacts of dams on natural river flows, biodiversity, infrastructure management and flood risk.

There are exciting international field trips* in your second and final year. You will have the opportunity to gain field skills to better understand biogeography and ecology, and different natural hazards. Final year students will also be provided with the opportunity to travel abroad to investigate topics such as flooding, ecological succession, habitat management, evidence of land movement over time, and environmental reconstruction from sediments.

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