BSc (Hons) Geography Bachelor's degree at the University of Winchester

This module will introduce you to a range of social, political and environmental risks in the contemporary world. You will analyse specific types of risk, the way they are assessed by national and international organisations, impacts on the environment and society, and responses to them. Specific issues will include (but not be limited to) climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss, population growth, financial risks and food security.

The module introduces human geography through the lenses of the local and the everyday and primarily explores the contributions of social and cultural geography. It focuses on the relationships that people have with place in the contemporary world. It covers issues such as the meanings of place, the enduring nature and importance of place in a globalised world, the ways in which people experience and know places, the deployment of exclusive notions of place and the representation of place.

Students are introduced to landscape and environmental change at the local scale and over millennial and lesser time scales. The module looks at terrestrial, fluvial and coastal features and associated processes of environmental change and their roles in shaping the landscape and biosphere at the river basin level and below. It will examine a range of specific landforms and habitats and consider their present forms in the contexts of their evolution during the Pleistocene and Holocene, and assoc

This module provides the foundation for your final year project whether that will be in human, physical or environmental geography. You will learn both quantitative and qualitative methods that you will use to collect your data and then apply to that data to aid your analysis. You will become familiar with standard laboratory practices and consider how scientific data is conventionally reported. You will get a taste of working semi-independently and communicating your original research.

The module is a foundation for final year projects whether they cover human, physical or environmental geography. In this module, you will learn both quantitative and qualitative methods that can be used to collect your data and then applied to that data to aid your analysis. You will get the opportunity to work on a coherent collection of samples and/or undertake a small-scale field project using Earth and natural science approaches/techniques.

This module enables you to understand and demonstrate skills in research project design and successfully identify and undertake a small piece of independent project work within the UK and a group project abroad.

This module takes a critical approach to issues of development and sustainable resource management at multiple scales, ranging from the global to the local. Through reference to diverse case studies and geographical contexts the module will explore links between development theory, policy and practice and their implications for the environment in the global south.