Study Schemes

BA  Human Geography [L70F]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020

Duration (studying Full-Time): 4 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS01120

Information in a Post-Truth World

GS09520

How to be a Student 1

GS09720

Introduction to Social Science

Semester 2
GS09320

How to be a Student 2

GS09620

The "Othered" Migrant: Social Science Perspectives

Year 1  Options

Semester 2
GS00820

Understanding Change - Environment, People, Places

GS09820

Representing the Other: Cultures and Clashes

Year 2  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS10000

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10000

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS10220

The city & the country: processes of conflict & changes

or
DA10520

Cefn gwlad a'r ddinas: prosesau o newid a gwrthdaro

GS13000

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

or
DA10300

Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data

Semester 2
GS10020

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10020

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS13020

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

or
DA10320

Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data

GS14220

Place and Identity

Year 2  Options

Students must choose one of two parthways. Students cannot mix modules across pathways.

Year 2  Options

Pathway 1 - Sociology (Arts). Students must take GS15120 and GS16120

Semester 1
GS15120

Thinking Sociologically

Semester 2
GS16120

Key Concepts in Sociology

Year 2  Options

Pathway 2 - Geography (Science). Students must take GS11520 or DA11520 (dependent on language preference) and GS10520

Semester 1
DA11520

Sut i Greu Planed

GS11520

How to Build a Planet

Semester 2
GS10520

Earth Surface Environments

Part 2 Rules

Year 3  Core (100 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS20000

Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

GS20900

Practising Human Geography: Methods, Approaches, and Contexts

GS22920

Placing Culture

GS27920

How to Build a Sustainable Society

Semester 2
GS20020

Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

GS20920

Practising Human Geography: Methods, Approaches, and Contexts

GS23020

Placing Politics

or
DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

Year 3  Options

Students must choose 20 credits from these optional modules (note, thise wishing to take DA20820 will need to talk to teh programme coordinator before completing registration). 20 credits may be elected from elsewhere in the University:

Semester 1
DA20820

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

GS20220

Genders and Sexualities

GS23600

Visualisation and Analysis of Geographical Data

Semester 2
GS23620

Visualisation and Analysis of Geographical Data

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS34000

Dissertation: Geography, Environmental Science, and Environmental Earth Science

or
DA34000

Traethawd Estynedig: Daearyddiaeth, Gwyddor yr Amgylchedd, a Gwyddor Daear yr Amgylchedd

Semester 2
GS34040

Dissertation: Geography, Environmental Science, and Environmental Earth Science

or
DA34040

Traethawd Estynedig: Daearyddiaeth, Gwyddor yr Amgylchedd, a Gwyddor Daear yr Amgylchedd

Final Year  Options

(80 credits) Students may take 80 credits. Up to 20 credits may be taken from appropriate modules offered in DGES or in the university.

Semester 1
DA32220

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

GS33320

Everyday Social Worlds

GS36220

Landscape, Culture and Society in 20th Century Britain

Semester 2
DA31720

Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig

GS30020

The psychosocial century

GS37520

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

GS37920

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary