WHAT KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
WILL YOUR DEGREE PROVIDE?

By the time you complete a degree programme in Earth Sciences you should have knowledge and understanding of:

• Why our human and physical environments and landscapes appear as they are, how they form and operate, and how they inter-relate at various scales
• How and why patterns of human and physical features differ from place to place across the earth
• Differences and inequality within the human world; especially the economic, social and political causes of inequality and economic development
• The importance of different spatial scales – global to local – and time scales for physical and human processes, together with their interactions and interdependence
• The way in which particular places and regions have evolved to be distinctive
• How to observe, describe, analyse, represent, interpret and report information about the world
• Understand changes and stability in human and physical worlds, including the causes, rates and patterns of change and the prediction of change to the foreseeable future
• The world as an integrated system

Geography includes theoretical and empirical (data based) studies. It involves IT, field and laboratory analytical approaches including techniques such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS), computer-based modelling, remote sensing and animations. Fieldwork is an integral part to most courses.