BSC Geography [F800]

Academic Year 2024/2025

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

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

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (120 Credits)

Semester 1
GS13000

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

or
DA10300

Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data

GS11520

How to Build a Planet

or
DA11520

Sut i Greu Planed

GS10000

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10000

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

GS10220

Conflict and Change: the making of urban and rural spaces

or
DA10520

Newid a gwrthdaro: Cynhyrchu gofodau gwledig a threfol

Semester 2
GS14220

Place and Identity

GS13020

Researching the World: data collection and analysis

or
DA10320

Ymchwilio'r Byd: Casglu a Dadansoddi Data

GS10520

Earth Surface Environments

GS10020

Living in a Dangerous World

or
DA10020

Byw mewn Byd Peryglus

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (50 Credits)

Semester 1
GS23810

Quantitative Data Analysis

GS20510

Social Research Methods

or
DA20510

Ymchwilio i bobl a lle

GS22010

Physical Analysis of Natural Materials

Semester 2
GS20410

Concepts for Geographers

GS23710

Geographical Information Systems

Year 2 Options

Students must take one of these modules.

Semester 1
DA25400

Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes

GS20000

Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

Semester 2
GS20020

Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

DA25420

Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes

Year 2 Options

Choose 50 credits

Semester 1
DA20820

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

GS22920

Placing Culture

DA22510

Geomorffoleg Afonol

GS23510

The Frozen Planet

GS25210

Catchment Systems

or
DA22510

Geomorffoleg Afonol

Semester 2
GS23020

Placing Politics

or
DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

GS21910

Reconstructing Past Environments

GS28910

Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society

Final Year Core (40 Credits)

Semester 1
GS34000

Geography Dissertation

or
DA34000

Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth

Semester 2
GS34040

Geography Dissertation

or
DA34040

Traethawd Estynedig Daearyddiaeth

Final Year Options

Students may choose 80 credits. Up to 20 credits may be taken from other appropriate modules in DGES or in the University.

Semester 1
GS37520

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

GS33420

Glaciers and Ice Sheets

GS36220

Modern British Landscapes

GS33320

Everyday Social Worlds

GS32020

Monitoring our Planet's Health from Space

DA32220

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

Semester 2
GS30020

The psychosocial century

GS31120

Applied Environmental Management

GS36820

The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives

GS30420

Volcanic Activity: Hazards and Environmental Change

GS37920

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power

DA31720

Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig

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