Geography with Geoinformatics BSc (Hons)

Entry Requirements

• A-levels: BBB. Should normally include geography or an equivalent subject.
• BTEC: DDM.
• International Baccalaureate: 30 points, specified subjects.
• Access to HE Diploma: pass with 60 credits overall. Must include level 3 units in geography, geology or science. At least 45 credits at level 3, with 24 credits at merit or above.
• GCSE (minimum grade C): at least three subjects including English language and mathematics or a science.
• Foundation degree/HND: direct entry to year 2.

English Language Requirement:

• IELTS 6.0 overall, with 6.0 in writing and a minimum of 5.5 in the other elements.

Curriculum

Year 1

• Data Presentation and Analysis for Geographers
• Fundamentals of Physical Geography
• Geographical Information Systems 1
• Global Environmental Issues and Management
• Introduction to Fieldwork
• Skills for Independent Learning
• Surveying in Practice
• Twenty-First Century Brighton

Options:

• Ancient Societies
• Archaeological Practice 1: Survey
• Citizenship for the Environment
• Contemporary Human Geographies
• Fundamentals of Geology
• Introduction to Environmental Hazards
• The Ocean Planet: An Introduction
• Water in the Environment

Year 2

• Advanced Data Analysis
• Applied Remote Sensing
• Geographical Information Systems 2
• Geography Fieldwork, Sicily
• Introduction to Remote Sensing
• Skills for Research and Careers

Options:

• Archaeological Practices 2: Excavation and Post-Excavation
• Climate Change
• Coastal and Aeolian Processes
• Contemporary Rural Geographies
• Critical Contemporary Geographies
• Environmental and Spatial Planning
• Environmental Conservation and Management
• Environmental Pollution and Control
• Environmental Hazards
• Geoarchaeology
• Geographies of Development
• Geographies of Everyday Life
• Ice Age Earth
• Sedimentology
• Societies of Early Europe
• Soil and Water Analysis
• Sustainable Development
• Water in the Landscape

Year 3

• Applications in GIS
• GPS for Land Surveyors
• Independent Project

Options:

• Air Quality Management
• Archaeological Heritage
• Coastal Environments
• Environmental Assessment
• Environmental Change in Low Latitudes
• Freshwater Processes and Ecosystems
• Geographies of Disability and Impairment
• Geographies of Education
• Geographies of Genders, Sexes and Sexualities
• Geographies of Sport and Leisure
• Humans and the Ancient Environment
• Independent Study Module
• Landscape Geographies
• Political Ecology
• Recording and Interpreting Archaeological Finds
• Medical Geography
• Waste Management
• Water and Health
• Wetland Environments