BA Geography

at Durham University

Year 1
 

Compulsory modules:

• Human Geography

• Introduction to Climate Change

• Introduction to Geographical Research (BA)

• Physical Geography.

Examples of optional modules:

Choose two optional modules from:

• Geographies of Crisis

• Planet under Pressure

• Understanding Earth’s Principles

• Module(s) offered by another department, subject to approval.

Year 2
 

In the second year, you will develop further practical and human geographical research skills and, through your choice of modules, may start to specialise in a number of themes or may choose a broader approach. These include our integrated modules that span the human/physical geography interface.

Compulsory modules:

• Social Research in Geography (includes compulsory residential fieldwork in the UK)

• Theory and Concepts in Contemporary Human Geography.

These form the required foundation for your Dissertation in the third year.

Examples of optional modules:

Choose three modules (the modules may vary from year to year but this is typical of the range):

• Climate Change: Geographical Perspectives

• Contested Environments

• Economic Geography

• Geographies of Development

• Political Geography

• Social and Cultural Geography

• Urban Geography

• One module from the Level 2 BSc list or from another department (with permission and subject to timetable compatibility).

Year 3
 

In the third year, you will undertake your own Research Project (the Dissertation), supervised by a member of staff. You will also choose from a selection of modules that involve material at the cutting-edge of contemporary research.

Compulsory module (40 credits):

• Dissertation (individual Research Project based on an approved human geography topic) – double module.

Examples of optional modules (80 credits from the following):

20 credits:
 

• Berlin: Culture, Politics and Contestation (field trip)

• Cape Town: Geographies of Energy Transition (field trip)

• Territory and Geopolitics (Jerusalem field trip)

• The Arctic (Norway field trip)

• Chicago: Sites of Global Change (field trip)

• Geographies of Difference

• Natural Hazards, Risk and Resilience

• Philosophy and Geography

• Feminist Geographies.

10 credits:

• Antarctic Environments

• Global Environmental Politics

• Europe: Geographies of Integration & Disintegration

• Urban Governance

• Geographies of Life and Living

• Critical Resource Geographies

• Unfreedom in Labour Relations

• Geographies of Money and Finance

• Neoliberal Life

• Understanding Land Conflicts.
   

Up to 20 credits from the Level 3 BSc list (with permission and subject to timetable compatibility).

A level offer – A*AA
 

BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma/OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma – D*DD
 

IB Diploma score – 38 with 666 in higher level subjects.
 

In addition to satisfying the University’s general entry requirements, please note:

• We welcome applications from applicants holding alternative qualifications that are equivalent to our standard entry requirements and from mature students with non-standard qualifications or who may have had a break in their study.

The tuition fees shown for students are for one complete academic year of full time study and are set according to the academic year of entry. Fees for subsequent years of your course may rise in line with an inflationary uplift as determined by the government.

 

Of those students who graduated in 2019:

• 86% are in paid employment or further study 15 months after graduation across all our programmes

Of those in employment:

• 86% are in high skilled employment

• With an average salary of £27,000.