Year 1
As this is a solely Human Geography degree, you will take no modules in physical geography and will instead chose supplementary modules from Politics, Sociology or Modern Languages. Please note that the number of Geographers taking some supplementary subjects may be subject to a cap in numbers.
Core modules
- Human Geography for a Globalized World
- Environment, Nature, Society
- Exploring our Digital Planet
- Human Geography Fieldcourse: The dynamics of people and place
- Skills for Professional Geographies
- Working with Geographic Information
Option modules
Choose two option modules from:
- Sociology in Practice
- Power, Privilege and Diversity
- The Global Cold War: International Relations 1945-1989
- Society in Transformation
- We Are What We Buy: Consumption, Self and Identity
- Order and Disorder: International Relations from 1989 to the Present
- Spanish Language (Beginners) 1 and 2 (double module)
- French Language (Beginners) 1 and 2 (double module)
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Year 2
In year 2 you will study a diversity of Human Geography themes, including environmental justice, gentrification, and the politics of development. Your second year will also involve an international field trip.
Core modules
- Geographical Research in the Field (Human Geography Overseas Field Course)
- Histories and Philosophies of Human Geography
- Research Design and Methods (with Dissertation Planning)
- Climate Change: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
Option modules
Choose five option modules from:
- Environment and Development
- Geographical Information Science
- Economy, Society and Space
- Social and Cultural Geography
- Political Geography: Space, Territory and Power
- Geography in Education (Limited spaces)
- Live Sociology
- Work, Employment and Society
- New Youth, Young Adulthood and Society
- Italian Society and Culture under Fascism
- French Language (Post-Beginners)*
- Spanish Language (Post-Advanced)*
To choose either of modules, you must have studied that language in your first year.
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Year Abroad or in Industry (optional)
If you want to, you can spend your third year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions or working in an industrial placement (eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2). Alternatively, you can opt to continue studying at the University and complete your degree in three years.
NB. A year spent abroad or on an industrial placement still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See our Fees and Funding section for details.
Final Year
Your final year incorporates a blend of teaching and research and is constructed largely from optional modules that allow you to build you degree in a way that most interests you. There is scope to develop specialisms, or remain a generalist. In semester 1 you will develop you own research project with your supervisor as part of the final year dissertation. You will then choose from a wide range of optional modules
Modules
Choose two option modules from:
- Critical Geopolitics
- Contemporary Environmental Challenges
- Geographies of the Market Place
- Critical Digital Geographies
Then four option modules from:
- Information Visualisation
- Cities of the Global South
- Migration, Place and Diversity
- Critical, Symbolic and Emotional Rural Geographies
- Berlin Fieldcourse: Tracing Geopolitics in Urban Space
- Research Communication
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.