Study Schemes

BA  Human Geography [L700]

Academic Year: 2025/2026Single Honours scheme - available from 2000/2001

Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years

Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; The Coleg Incentive Scholarship;

Part 1 Rules

Year 1  Core (80 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
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

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 1  Options

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

Year 1  Options

Pathway 1 - Sociology (Arts). Students must take GA15120 and GA16120

Semester 1
GS15120

Thinking Sociologically

Semester 2
GS16120

Key Concepts in Sociology

Year 1  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 2  Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS20510

Social Research Methods

or
DA20510

Ymchwilio i bobl a lle

GS22920

Placing Culture

Semester 2
GS20410

Concepts for Geographers

GS23020

Placing Politics

or
DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

Year 2  Options

Students must take one of these modules.

Semester 1
DA25400

Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes

GS21500

Human Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

Semester 2
DA25420

Dylunio Ymchwil a Sgiliau Gwaith Maes

GS21520

Human Geography Research Design and Fieldwork Skills

Year 2  Options

Choose 40 credits

Semester 1
DA20820

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

GS20220

Genders and Sexualities

GS23810

Quantitative Data Analysis

Semester 2
GS23710

Geographical Information Systems

GS28910

Geographical Perspectives on the Sustainable Society

Final Year  Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

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 from the following modules. 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

GS37520

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

Semester 2
DA31720

Rheoli'r Amgylchedd Gymreig

GS30020

The psychosocial century

GS36820

The Global Countryside: Geographical and Sociological Perspectives

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