BSC Geography [F80F]

Academic Year
2025/2026
Campus
Aberystwyth
Single Honours
scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time)
4 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards

Part 1 Rules

Year 1

Core (80 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

How to be a Student 1

GS09520

20

Semester 1

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS01120

20

Semester 1

How to be a Student 2

GS09320

20

Semester 2

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS00820

20

Semester 2

Options (40 credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Introduction to Social Science

GS09720

20

Semester 1

Environmental Management

GS00420

20

Semester 1

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

GS09820

20

Semester 2

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

GS09620

20

Semester 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 2

Core (120 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

GS13000

Module in Welsh

0

Semester 1

How to Build a Planet

GS11520

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 1

Conflict and Change: the making of urban and rural spaces

GS10220

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 1

Living in a Dangerous World

GS10000

Module in Welsh

0

Semester 1

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

GS13020

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 2

Place and Identity

GS14220

20

Semester 2

Living in a Dangerous World

GS10020

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 2

Earth Surface Environments

GS10520

20

Semester 2

Part 2 Rules

Year 3

Core (50 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Quantitative Data Analysis

GS23810

10

Semester 1

Social Research Methods

GS20510

Module in Welsh

10

Semester 1

Physical Analysis of Natural Materials

GS22010

10

Semester 1

Geographical Information Systems

GS23710

10

Semester 2

Concepts for Geographers

GS20410

10

Semester 2

Options (50 credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

The Frozen Planet

GS23510

10

Semester 1

Catchment Systems

GS25210

Module in Welsh

10

Semester 1

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

DA20820

20

Semester 1

Placing Culture

GS22920

20

Semester 1

Geomorffoleg Afonol

DA22510

10

Semester 1

Placing Politics

GS23020

Module in Welsh

20

Semester 2

Reconstructing Past Environments

GS21910

10

Semester 2

Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society

GS28910

10

Semester 2

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

DA23020

20

Semester 2

Final Year

Core (40 Credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Geography Dissertation

GS34000

Module in Welsh

0

Semester 1

Geography Dissertation

GS34040

Module in Welsh

40

Semester 2

Options (60 credits)

Module Name

Module Code

Credit Value

Semester

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

DA32220

20

Semester 1

Everyday Social Worlds

GS33320

20

Semester 1

Monitoring our Planet's Health from Space

GS32020

20

Semester 1

Landscape, Culture and Society in 20th Century Britain

GS36220

20

Semester 1

Glaciers and Ice Sheets

GS33420

20

Semester 1

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

GS37520

20

Semester 1

Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig

DA31720

20

Semester 2

The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives

GS36820

20

Semester 2

The psychosocial century

GS30020

20

Semester 2

Volcanic Activity: Hazards and Environmental Change

GS30420

20

Semester 2

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power

GS37920

20

Semester 2

Sedimentary Environments

GS32120

20

Semester 2

Applied Environmental Management

GS31120

20

Semester 2

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