Lancaster University

Subject Specific Aims

 The BSc Geography (Environmental Change) degree aims to:

 (i)                  cover key aspects of human, physical and environmental geography and of the intellectual development of the subject;

(ii)                provide research-informed teaching particularly in Year 3, and show the real-world uses of geography as a subject;

(iii)              provide opportunities and support for all students to develop geographical skills at various levels;

(iv)             allow students to specialise in environmental change by enabling them to:

-         understand the approaches that can be used to reconstruct the patterns of environmental change at the Earth's surface, especially during the Holocene;

-         discover the ways in which humans have instigated, responded and adapted to these environmental changes;

-         appreciate how humans are increasingly influencing the characteristics and rates of environmental change and to appreciate the social, political, economic, religious and legal implications and drivers of environmental change;

-         understand how a knowledge of all of the above needs to be combined with emerging approaches for monitoring the environment from local to global scales in order to achieve sustainability.

 General Educational Aims

The BSc Geography (Environmental Change) degree aims to :

 (i)                  support all students' learning and their ability to learn in the future;

(ii)                provide opportunities and support for all students to develop many intellectual and key skills at various levels;

Subject Specific : Knowledge, Understanding and Skills

At the end of the BSc Geography (Environmental Change) degree students will have:

(i)    covered key aspects of human, physical and environmental geography and of the intellectual development of the subject;

(ii)   experienced research-informed teaching particularly in Year 3, and appreciated the real-world uses of geography as a subject;

(iii)  developed geographical skills at various levels;

(iv)  specialised in the study of environmental change and will:

?     understand the approaches that can be used to reconstruct the patterns of environmental change at the Earth surface and atmosphere in the past;

?     discover the ways in which humans have responded and adapted to these environmental changes;

?     appreciate how humans are increasingly influencing the characteristics and rates of environmental change and to appreciate the social, political, economic, religious and legal implications and drivers of environmental change;

?     understand how a knowledge of all of the above needs to be combined with emerging approaches for monitoring the environment from local to global scales in order to achieve sustainability

General : Knowledge, Understanding and Skills (to include personal development and employability skills)

At the end of the BSc Geography (Environmental Change) degree, students will have:

(i)         developed their ability to learn, independently and in teams;

(ii)        developed key transferable skills;