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Geography and Environment
Geography
BA (Hons) DPS/DIntS*: 4 years full-time with placement year UCAS code: L701 BA (Hons): 3 years full-time UCAS code: L700 BSc (Hons) DPS/DIntS*: 4 years full-time with placement year UCAS code: F801 BSc (Hons): 3 years full-time UCAS code: F800
Typical offers
A level: AAB IB: 35 (6,6,5 HL) BTEC Level 3 National Diploma: DD plus A level Geography grade B
Students can study either for a BA or BSc in Geography. Both courses provide a sound understanding of how social and physical processes affect our rapidly changing planet, before allowing you to specialise in human geography (BA) or physical geography (BSc). It is still possible to maintain a balance of human and physical geography; both the BA and BSc allow you to do this.
Year 1
Areas studied include cartography and digital mapping, quantitative methods, environmental hazards, global economic change, geographies of identity, global environmental change at local scale, earth system science, with all students attending a residential fieldcourse.
Year 2
Areas studied include research design and practice, and a range of optional modules including forest ecology, globalisation and fieldcourses.
Optional placement/study abroad year
Optional professional placement and/or overseas study.
Final year
Areas studied include a range of specialist human geography, physical geography and fieldcourse modules plus a compulsory dissertation.
Graduate destinations
Our graduates are appointed to posts across a full range of industries and sectors, including finance, management, the armed forces, computing, industry, international aid, development and environmental agencies, and education.
*Diploma in Professional/International Studies
Geography and Management
BSc (Hons) DPS/DIntS*: 4 years full-time with placement year UCAS code: FN82 BSc (Hons): 3 years full-time UCAS code: FN8F
Typical offers
A level: AAB IB: 35 (6,6,5 HL) BTEC Level 3 National Diploma: DD plus A level Geography grade B
This degree will appeal to those looking to extend their knowledge of the social and physical processes affecting our rapidly changing planet, as well as develop their understanding of management. You will spend equal amounts of time studying each subject, and there is also the opportunity to explore the relationship between geography and management in an optional final year dissertation.
Year 1
Areas studied include human geography, physical geography, and academic and professional study skills. Management topics include organisational behaviour, human resources and accounting.
Year 2
Areas studied include a range of human geography, physical geography, and fieldcourse modules. Management topics include marketing, organisation studies and management sciences.
Optional placement/study abroad year
Optional professional placement or study abroad year.
Final year
Areas studied include a range of specialist geography and management modules plus a compulsory strategic management module.
Graduate destinations
All of our courses develop a range of subject-specific and transferable skills. Graduates from this degree have pursued exciting and diverse career paths and almost all of them are in employment within a few months of graduating, or progress to postgraduate study.
*Diploma in Professional/International Studies
Geography and Sport Science
BSc (Hons) DPS/DIntS*: 4 years full-time with placement year UCAS code: FC8F BSc (Hons): 3 years full-time UCAS code: FC86
Typical offers
A level: AAB IB: 35 (6,6,5 HL) BTEC Level 3 National Diploma: DD plus A level Geography grade B
Geography with Economics
BSc (Hons) DPS/DIntS*: 4 years full-time with placement year UCAS code: LL18 BSc (Hons): 3 years full-time UCAS code: LL17
Typical offers
A level: AAB IB: 35 (6,6,5 HL) BTEC Level 3 National Diploma: DD plus A level Geography grade B
This course aims to develop your understanding of how physical and social processes affect our rapidly changing planet, as well as enhance your knowledge of sport science. Geography modules span human and physical geography and you will have the option to specialise between them as preferred in second and third year. You will also develop a theoretical, critical and practical understanding of sport science with the help of the UK’s leading School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.
Year 1
Areas studied include human geography, physical geography, and academic and professional study skills. Sport science topics include sport and the social sciences, sport and exercise science, and teaching physical education.
Year 2
Areas studied include a range of human geography, physical geography, and fieldcourse modules, as well as various sport science topics including conceptualising sport and fitness training and analysis.
Optional placement/study abroad year
Optional professional placement or study abroad year.
Final year
Areas studied include a range of specialist geography modules and the option of conducting independent research. Sport science topics are selected from a range of optional modules including psychology of coaching and physical education, and physical activity and health in practice.
Graduate destinations
Recent graduates have been appointed to posts across a broad range of industries and sectors. Some go on to further study or training, or take up posts that reflect the content of both subjects such as teacher training for Physical Education and Geography; others have been appointed to posts in publishing, sport marketing, administration and management.
*Diploma in Professional/International Studies This degree combines a focus on the social and physical processes affecting our rapidly changing planet, as well as developing your knowledge and understanding of economics. It is taught in partnership with one of the UK’s leading Schools of Business and Economics. Skills acquisition and assessment are increasingly important for employment prospects and these are given prominence throughout the degree.
Year 1
Areas studied include human and physical geography, macro and microeconomics.
Year 2
Areas studied include a range of human geography, physical geography, and fieldcourse modules. Economics topics include financial economics and the economics of social issues.
Optional placement/study abroad year
Optional professional placement or study abroad year.
Final year
Areas studied include a range of specialist geography modules and the option of conducting independent research. Economics topics include transport economics, and international economic relations.
Graduate destinations
Our graduates are appointed to posts across a full range of industries and sectors, including finance, management, the armed forces, computing, industry, international aid, development and environmental agencies, and education. Almost all our graduates are in employment within a few months of graduating, or progress to postgraduate study.
*Diploma in Professional/International Studies
BA Politics
Courses
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International Relations, Politics and History
Why choose International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough?
IRPH is a multi-disciplinary community in which you will be challenged to review and question not just your knowledge, but how you acquire knowledge. Our Politics and International Relations programmes help you to interpret the past, understand the present and determine your own future. We offer a selection of exciting degree courses which provide students with an up-to-the-minute grasp of emerging political developments on the world stage, confront some of the most fundamental political and historical questions which have shaped the modern world, and provide transferable skills that will help you secure a job after your degree. The History programmes explore the motivations of people in the past, and the causes and legacies of key events. They allow you to understand why political, economic, social and cultural change happens and illuminate the ways that historians disagree over these trends. Placement year and study abroad
We encourage and support students who wish to undertake a year-long work placement during their degree. You will also have an opportunity to spend your third year (or a single semester of your degree) abroad by securing paid work teaching English to school children or studying at a university. You can study abroad in a European language, but it is also possible to go to an English-speaking university either in Europe or elsewhere, for example in the USA or Australia. Employability
Our graduates undertake a wide variety of careers in the private and public sectors, at home and abroad, in marketing, management, financial services, advertising, the armed forces, journalism, publishing, teaching and politics. Facilities
Facilities include newly refurbished common rooms, study spaces and a purpose-built computer lab, which serves as a self-teaching laboratory for language students and provides open-access computers for everyone. Varied learning experience
In addition to the more traditional forms of assessment, our students can expect to be set a wide variety of assessment types that could include designing and delivering a poster presentation, the use of film, writing a political blog or speech to role play simulation exercises.
Expert teaching
Academics in this study area play an active role in helping shape the academic and practical world with their research and expertise. This includes engagement in policy on militarisation, immigration, populism to work with the Department for Education and the Institute for Education.
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