Programme Specification
GY BSc (Hons) Geography
Academic Year: 2014/15
This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided.
This specification applies to delivery of the programme in the Academic Year indicated above. Prospective students reviewing this information for a later year of study should be aware that these details are subject to change as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Study.
This specification should be read in conjunction with:
- Reg. XX (Undergraduate Awards) (see University Regulations)
- Module Specifications
- The teaching, learning and assessment strategies used at Loughborough (available soon)
- What makes Loughborough University programmes and its graduates distinctive (available soon)
- Summary
- Programme aims
- Learning outcomes
- Programme structure
- Progression and weighting
Programme summary
Awarding body/institution | Loughborough University |
Teaching institution (if different) | |
Owning school/department | Department of Geography - pre 2018 |
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body | |
Final award | BSc (Hons)/BSc (Hons) + DPS/DIntS |
Programme title | Geography |
Programme code | GYUB01 |
Length of programme | The duration of the programme is normally six semesters (three years), or eight semesters (four years) for students who undertake an academic year abroad (Part I). For students entering from 2014/15, the opportunity to undertake professional training via an approved industrial/work placement (Part I) will be available. |
UCAS code | F800 |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/departments/geography/geography/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published |
1. Programme Aims
- to provide students with an intellectually-stimulating environment within which they can develop the skills to enable them to comprehend, interpret and analyse the social and physical worlds;
- to enable students to learn about the key concepts, theories and methods within the discipline of geography;
- to provide students with the opportunity to study a broad curriculum in human and physical geography;
- to achieve, through the student learning process, a progressive improvement in academic performance over the degree programme;
- to enhance students’ career and employment prospects on graduating by developing a range of transferable skills embedded in the programme.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external and internal reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
The QAA Benchmark Statement for geography
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- a range of environments, environmental processes and the impacts of these processes on human activities and vice versa;
- the ways in which representations and interpretations of the world are socially-constructed, and the forms of geographical difference;
- the determinants of temporal and spatial variation in the physical, social, economic and political worlds; and the significance of spatial and temporal scale on physical processes, human processes and on their interactions;
- past patterns of environmental and social changes, and of the processes and conditions that have determined those changes, and the implications for the future;
- the idea of Geography as dynamic, plural and contested; developed within the broader disciplinary frameworks of the natural and social sciences and the humanities;
- the potential applications of geographical concepts within a broader critical framework;
- the main methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of geographical data.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Develop a reflexive approach to learning.
- Abstract and synthesise information.
- Assess the merits of contrasting theories, explanations and arguments.
- Critically evaluate and interpret a range of evidence, including data and text.
- Undertake problem-solving and decision-making.
- Develop a reasoned argument.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Combine and interpret different types of geographical evidence.
- Recognise and critically debate moral and ethical issues underpinning particular geographical debates or enquiries.
- Undertake safe and effective field and laboratory work.
- Employ a range of survey skills for the collection of qualitative and quantitative data relevant to geographical enquiry and use appropriate methods for the analysis of these data.
- Prepare effective maps and diagrams using a range of appropriate technologies.
- Design and execute a piece of research and produce a report.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should demonstrate competence in:
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Numeracy and computational skills.
- Field and laboratory skills.
- Spatial awareness and observational skills.
- IT and information handling and retrieval.
- Independent study and group work.
- Time management.
4. Programme structure
Candidates must take a total modular weight of 120 in each Part with a minimum modular weight of 50 in each semester, taking into account both compulsory and optional modules. Individual modules taught and assessed over both semesters with a modular weight of 10 may count against either semester 1 or semester 2, depending on the balance of other modular weights between semesters. Where the modular weight of a module taught and assessed over both semesters is 20 or 40, this shall be split equally between semesters.
4.1 Part A - Introductory Modules
Candidates must take all designated compulsory modules (combined modular weight of 120).
Semesters 1 and 2
(i)
COMPULSORY MODULE |
|
(total modular weight 10) |
Code |
Title |
Modular Weight |
GYA106 |
Tutorials |
10 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 60)
GYA002 |
Geographies of Global Economic Change |
20 |
GYA006 |
Practising Geography – Residential Fieldcourse |
10 |
GYA007 |
Cartography and Digital Mapping |
10 |
GYA008 |
Global Environmental Change at Local Scale |
10 |
GYA101 |
Earth System Science |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 50)
GYA003 |
Quantitative Methods in Geography |
10 |
GYA102 |
Geographies of Identity |
20 |
GYA112 |
Environmental Hazards: from mitigation to management |
20 |
4.2 Part B - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 20)
GYB327 |
Geographical Research: Design and Practice |
20 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
In addition to compulsory modules GYB201 and GYB327, candidates must choose a minimum modular weight of 60 from Group 1 modules over semesters 1 and 2. The remaining 30 modular weights may be chosen from modules in Groups 1, 2 and 3 over semesters 1 and 2, of which a maximum of 20 can be from Group 3. Fieldcourse modules GYB328 and GYB901 in Group 2 are mutually exclusive.
Group 1
GYB210 |
Globalization |
20 |
GYB220 |
Geographies of Social Difference |
20 |
GYB230 |
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYB240 |
Environmental Systems and Resource Management |
20 |
Semester 1
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Group 2
GYB113 |
Geographies of Culture, Media and Representation |
10 |
GYB311 |
River Ecology |
10 |
GYB322 |
Lake System Dynamics |
10 |
GYB328 |
Physical Geography Fieldcourse |
20 |
GYB901 |
Human Geography Fieldcourse – Paris |
20 |
Group 3
Modules from other departments within the University's Module Catalogue, subject to availability and Departmental approval.
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 10)
GYB201 |
Remote Sensing & GIS |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Group 2
GYB110 |
Sustainable Urban Geographies |
10 |
GYB308 |
Forest Ecology |
10 |
GYB320 |
Global Migration |
10 |
GYB400 |
Exploring the Ice Ages |
10 |
Group 3
Modules from other departments within the University's Module Catalogue, subject to availability and Departmental approval.
4.3 Part I
Four-year programme - During the year abroad, candidates may undertake either (i) an approved overseas placement as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI002); or (ii) an approved programme of study abroad as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI003).
Alternatively, candidates entering from 2014/15 on the 4-year programme undertaking professional training via an approved industrial/work placement will be registered on GYI004.
4.4 Part C - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 40)
GYC500 |
Dissertation |
40 |
The modular weight of GYC500 must be split equally (20:20) between semesters 1 & 2.
Semester 1
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a modular weight of 80 over semesters 1 and 2, of which a maximum of 20 can be from modules offered by other departments. Fieldcourse modules GYC308, GYC903 and GYC908 are mutually exclusive.
GYC104 |
Quaternary Environments |
10 |
GYC107 |
Regional Geography of the UK |
20 |
GYC208 |
Aeolian Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYC211 |
Snow, Ice and Environment |
10 |
GYC212 |
Globalised Urbanisation |
20 |
GYC214 |
Geographies of Children and Youth |
10 |
GYC309 |
Feminist Geographies of Home |
10 |
GYC315 |
Environmental Change and Ecological Response |
10 |
GYC903 |
Alpine Studies Fieldcourse |
20 |
plus modules from other departments within the University's Module Catalogue, subject to availability and Departmental approval.
Semester 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
GYC108 |
Climate and Society |
20 |
GYC110 |
GIS, Modelling and Flood Risk Management |
10 |
GYC200 |
Conservation: Principles and Practice |
10 |
GYC205 |
Central America: Dependency and Development |
10 |
GYC308 |
Global Cities Fieldcourse – New York |
20 |
GYC325 |
Geographies of Transnational Mobility and Diaspora |
20 |
GYC908 |
Mediterranean Rural Spaces Fieldcourse |
20 |
plus modules from other departments within the University's Module Catalogue, subject to availability and Departmental approval.
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
In order to progress from Part A to Part B, from Part B to C, and to be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI002 or GYI004 in the programme of study required for Part I.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in International Studies (DIntS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI003 in the programme of study required for Part I.
Subject to the exception specified below, provision will be made in accordance with Regulation XX for candidates who have the right of re-assessment in any Part of the programme to undergo re-assessment in the University's Special Assessment Period (SAP).
Candidates who have accumulated fewer than 60 credits in any Part of the programme may not undergo re-assessment in the University’s SAP. Re-assessment in the SAP will also not be available for certain modules and this is indicated in individual module specifications.
6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the purposes of Final Degree Classification
Candidates' final degree classification will be determined on the basis of their performance in degree level Module Assessments in Parts B and C. The percentage mark for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B 40% : Part C 60% to determine the final percentage mark.
Programme Specification
GY BSc (Hons) Geography and Management
Academic Year: 2014/15
This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided.
This specification applies to delivery of the programme in the Academic Year indicated above. Prospective students reviewing this information for a later year of study should be aware that these details are subject to change as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Study.
This specification should be read in conjunction with:
- Reg. XX (Undergraduate Awards) (see University Regulations)
- Module Specifications
- The teaching, learning and assessment strategies used at Loughborough (available soon)
- What makes Loughborough University programmes and its graduates distinctive (available soon)
- Summary
- Programme aims
- Learning outcomes
- Programme structure
- Progression and weighting
Programme summary
Awarding body/institution | Loughborough University |
Teaching institution (if different) | |
Owning school/department | Department of Geography - pre 2018 |
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body | |
Final award | BSc (Hons)/BSc (Hons) + DPS/DIntS |
Programme title | Geography and Management |
Programme code | GYUB03 |
Length of programme | The duration of the programme is six semesters (three years) or eight semesters (four years), which includes either industrial or professional training or study abroad or overseas placement in Part I. |
UCAS code | FN82 FN42 |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/departments/geography/geographyandmanagement/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published |
1. Programme Aims
- provide students with an intellectually-stimulating environment within which they can develop knowledge, understanding and skills in both geography and management;
- to provide students with the opportunity to study a broad curriculum in both geography and in management;
- to achieve, through the student learning process, a progressive improvement in the students’ academic performance over the degree programme;
- to enhance students’ career and employment prospects on graduating by developing a range of transferable skills embedded in the programme.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external and internal reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
The Benchmark Statements for Geography and General Business and Management
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the potential applications of concepts within a broader critical framework;
- the main methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of data;
- the idea of academic disciplines as dynamic, plural and contested; developed within the broader framework of the sciences and humanities;
and within the Geography portion of the programme:
- a range of environments, in the broadest sense, of environmental processes and the impacts of these processes on human activities and vice versa;
- the ways in which representations and interpretations of the world are socially-constructed., and the forms of geographical difference;
- the determinants of temporal and spatial variation in the physical, social, economic and political worlds; and the significance of spatial and temporal scale on physical processes, human processes and on their interactions;
- past patterns of environmental and social changes, and of the processes and conditions that have determined those changes, and the implications for the future;
and within the Management portion of the programme:
- organisations; their internal structures and their management, including the management of human resources, financial resources and information systems;
- the external environment within which organisations operate; the markets for goods, services and finance; customers and the implications for marketing;
- analytical frameworks, techniques and processes; for the determination of appropriate courses of action in the context of business and the management of organisations;
- business policy and strategy; development of policy and strategy; language of policy and strategy; current issues in strategic management.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Develop a reflexive approach to learning.
- Abstract and synthesise information.
- Assess the merits of contrasting theories, explanations and arguments.
- Critically evaluate and interpret a range of evidence, including data and text.
- Undertake problem-solving and decision-making.
- Develop a reasoned argument.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
1. Combine and interpret different types of evidence.
2. Recognise and critically debate moral and ethical issues underpinning particular debates or enquiries.
3. Employ a range of survey skills for the collection of qualitative and quantitative data and to use appropriate methods for the analysis of these data.
4. Design and execute a piece of research and produce a report.
Additionally, within the Geography portion of the programme:
5. Prepare effective maps and diagrams using a range of appropriate technologies.
6. Undertake safe and effective field and laboratory work
Additionally, within the Management portion of the programme:
7. Apply quantitative skills including data analysis and interpretation; the use of business models.
8. Evaluate a variety of business scenarios.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should show competence in:
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Numeracy and computational skills.
- Field and laboratory skills.
- Spatial awareness and observational skills.
- IT and information handling and retrieval.
- Independent study and group work.
- Time management.
4. Programme structure
Modules with a total modular weight of 60 must be studied in each academic year (Parts A, B and C) from both Geography and Management.
Candidates must take a total modular weight of 120 in each Part with a minimum modular weight of 50 in each semester, taking into account both compulsory and optional modules. Individual modules taught and assessed over both semesters with a modular weight of 10 may count against either semester 1 or semester 2, depending on the balance of other modular weights between semesters.
4.1 Part A - Introductory Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 10)
Geography |
||
Code |
Title |
Modular Weight |
GYA106 |
Tutorials |
10 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 60)
Geography |
||
GYA004 |
Geographies of Global Economic Change |
10 |
GYA006 |
Practising Geography – Residential Fieldcourse |
10 |
GYA101 |
Earth System Science |
10 |
Management |
||
BSA505 |
Organisational Behaviour |
10 |
BSA525 |
Introduction to Accounting |
10 |
BSA570 |
Quantitative Methods for Business |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 50)
Geography |
||
GYA104 |
Geographies of Identity |
10 |
GYA110 |
Environmental Hazards: from mitigation to management |
10 |
Management |
||
BSA506 |
Management of Human Resources |
10 |
BSA526 |
Accounting for Managers |
10 |
BSA572 |
Statistics & Modelling for Management |
10 |
4.2 Part B - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2, of which a minimum of 40 must be from Group 1 (20 if GYB327 is selected). Fieldcourse modules GYB328 and GYB901 in Group 2 are mutually exclusive. In addition, candidates must choose either BSB550 or BSB590 in semester 2.
Geography - Group 1 |
||
GYB210 |
Globalization |
20 |
GYB220 |
Geographies of Social Difference |
20 |
GYB230 |
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYB240 |
Environmental Systems and Resource Management |
20 |
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB327 |
Geographical Research: Design and Practice (pre-requisite for the dissertation) |
20 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 30)
Management |
||
BSB555 |
Organisation Studies |
10 |
BSB560 |
Principles of Marketing |
10 |
BSB580 |
Operations Management |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB113 |
Geographies of Culture, Media and Representation |
10 |
GYB311 |
River Ecology |
10 |
GYB322 |
Lake System Dynamics |
10 |
GYB328 |
Physical Geography Fieldcourse |
20 |
GYB901 |
Human Geography Fieldcourse – Paris |
20 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 20)
Management |
||
BSB562 |
The Marketing Mix |
10 |
BSB572 |
Management Science Methods |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Management (either BSB550 or BSB590) |
||
BSB550 |
Company Finance |
10 |
BSB590 |
The Contemporary Business Environment |
10 |
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB110 |
Sustainable Urban Geographies |
10 |
GYB201 |
Remote Sensing & GIS |
10 |
GYB308 |
Forest Ecology |
10 |
GYB320 |
Global Migration |
10 |
GYB400 |
Exploring the Ice Ages |
10 |
4.3 Part I - Degree Modules
Four-year programme – Candidates registered on the four-year sandwich programme must undertake industrial or professional training and register for module BSI001. Arrangements for this will be made by the IPS Office within the School of Business and Economics.
Alternatively, candidates may undertake either (i) an approved overseas placement as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI002); or (ii) an approved programme of study abroad as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI003).
4.4 Part C - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2. GYC400 and GYC401 (instances 1 & 2) are mutually exclusive, as are fieldcourse modules GYC308, GYC903 and GYC908. In addition to BSC570, candidates must also choose a modular weight of 40 from Management modules over semesters 1 and 2.
Geography |
||
GYC400 |
Dissertation |
30 |
The modular weight of GYC400 may be split between semesters in the ratio of either 20:10 or 10:20 depending on the balance of other modular weights selected.
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 20)
Management |
||
BSC570 |
Strategic Management |
20 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography |
||
GYC104 |
Quaternary Environments |
10 |
GYC107 |
Regional Geography of the UK |
20 |
GYC208 |
Aeolian Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYC211 |
Snow, Ice and Environment |
10 |
GYC212 |
Globalised Urbanisation |
20 |
GYC214 |
Geographies of Children and Youth |
10 |
GYC309 |
Feminist Geographies of Home |
10 |
GYC315 |
Environmental Change and Ecological Response |
10 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 1) |
20 |
GYC903 |
Alpine Studies Fieldcourse |
20 |
Management |
|
|
BSC085 |
The Changing Work Organisation |
10 |
BSC110 |
Marketing Strategy and Planning |
10 |
BSC120 |
Risk Management |
10 |
BSC165 |
Business Forecasting |
10 |
BSC520 |
Business Systems |
10 |
BSC522 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography |
||
GYC108 |
Climate and Society |
20 |
GYC110 |
GIS, Modelling and Flood Risk Management |
10 |
GYC200 |
Conservation: Principles and Practice |
10 |
GYC205 |
Central America: Dependency and Development |
10 |
GYC308 |
Global Cities Fieldcourse – New York |
20 |
GYC325 |
Geographies of Transnational Mobility and Diaspora |
20 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 2) |
20 |
GYC908 |
Mediterranean Rural Spaces Fieldcourse |
20 |
Management |
|
|
BSC042 |
Corporate and Wholesale Banking |
10 |
BSC124 |
Marketing Communications |
10 |
BSC144 |
Project Management |
10 |
BSC524 |
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Planning |
10 |
BSC575 |
Leadership & Interpersonal Skills |
10 |
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
In order to progress from Part A to Part B, from Part B to C, and to be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX
Candidates who successfully complete Part I (BSI001) on industrial placement or professional training will be eligible for the additional award of Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) in accordance with Regulation XI.
Candidates who successfully complete Part I (GYI002) on an approved overseas placement will be eligible for the additional award of Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) in accordance with Regulation XI.
Candidates who successfully complete Part I (GYI003) on an approved programme of study abroad will be eligible for the additional award of Diploma in International Studies (DIntS) in accordance with Regulation XI.
Subject to the exception specified below, provision will be made in accordance with Regulation XX for candidates who have the right of re-assessment in any Part of the programme to undergo re-assessment in the University's Special Assessment Period (SAP).
Candidates who have accumulated fewer than 60 credits in any Part of the programme may not undergo re-assessment in the University’s SAP. Re-assessment in the SAP will also not be available for certain modules and this is indicated in individual module specifications.
6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the purposes of Final Degree Classification
Candidates' final degree classification will be determined on the basis of their performance in degree level Module Assessments in Parts B and C. The percentage mark for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B 40% : Part C 60% to determine the final programme percentage mark.
Programme Specification
GY BSc (Hons) Geography and Sport Management
Academic Year: 2014/15
This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided.
This specification applies to delivery of the programme in the Academic Year indicated above. Prospective students reviewing this information for a later year of study should be aware that these details are subject to change as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Study.
This specification should be read in conjunction with:
- Reg. XX (Undergraduate Awards) (see University Regulations)
- Module Specifications
- The teaching, learning and assessment strategies used at Loughborough (available soon)
- What makes Loughborough University programmes and its graduates distinctive (available soon)
- Summary
- Programme aims
- Learning outcomes
- Programme structure
- Progression and weighting
Programme summary
Awarding body/institution | Loughborough University |
Teaching institution (if different) | |
Owning school/department | Department of Geography - pre 2018 |
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body | |
Final award | BSc (Hons)/BSc (Hons) + DPS/DIntS |
Programme title | Geography and Sport Management |
Programme code | GYUB04 |
Length of programme | The duration of the programme is six semesters (three years), or eight semesters (four years) for students who undertake an academic year abroad (Part I). For students entering from 2014/15, the opportunity to undertake professional training via an approved industrial/work placement (Part I) will be available. |
UCAS code | LN78 |
Admissions criteria | |
Date at which the programme specification was published |
1. Programme Aims
- to provide students with an intellectually-stimulating environment within which they can develop knowledge, understanding and skills in both geography and sport management;
- to provide students with the opportunity to study a broad curriculum in both human and physical geography and in the field of sport management;
- to develop appropriate professional practice;
- to achieve, through the student learning process, a progressive improvement in academic performance over the degree programme;
- to enhance students’ career and employment prospects on graduating by developing a range of transferable skills embedded in the programme.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external and internal reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
The Benchmark Statements for Geography, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism, General Business & Management.
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the potential applications of concepts within a broader critical framework;
- the main methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of data;
- the idea of academic disciplines as dynamic, plural and contested; developed within the broader framework of the sciences and humanities;
and within the Geography portion of the programme:
- a range of environments, in the broadest sense, of processes and the impacts of these processes on human activities and vice versa;
- the ways in which representations and interpretations of the world are socially-constructed., and the forms of geographical difference;
- the determinants of temporal and spatial variation in the physical, social, economic and political worlds; and the significance of spatial and temporal scale on physical processes, human processes and on their interactions;
- past patterns of environmental and social changes, and of the processes and conditions that have determined those changes, and the implications for the future;
and within the Sport Management portion of the programme:
- the issues of lifestyle, consumption and culture relating to sport, and to critically evaluate and reflect on the ways in which people’s lives are affected;
- the organisations and structures responsible for sport, and display a critical insight into the political ramifications which arise from these;
- the concepts of social, public and business policy in the planning and delivery of sport;
- the theories, concepts and principles of practice from management-based study of human resources, economics, finance and marketing, and their applications to sport events and facility provision.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Develop a reflexive approach to learning.
- Abstract and synthesise information.
- Assess the merits of contrasting theories, explanations and arguments.
- Critically evaluate and interpret a range of evidence, including data and text.
- Undertake problem-solving and decision-making.
- Develop a reasoned argument.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
1. Combine and interpret different types of evidence.
2. Recognise and critically debate moral and ethical issues underpinning particular debates or enquiries.
3. Undertake safe and effective field and laboratory work.
4. Employ a range of survey skills for the collection of qualitative and quantitative data and to use appropriate methods for the analysis of these data.
5. Design and execute a piece of research and produce a report.
Additionally, within the Geography portion of the programme:
6. Prepare effective maps and diagrams using a range of appropriate technologies.
Additionally, within the Sport Management portion of the programme:
7.Demonstrate a range of skills necessary to deliver and reflect upon a sport experience, a competition or an event, for example, in the promotion of professional practice.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should show competence in:
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Numeracy and computational skills.
- Field and laboratory skills.
- Spatial awareness and observational skills.
- IT and information handling and retrieval.
- Independent study and group work.
- Time management.
4. Programme structure
Modules with a total modular weight of 60 must be studied in each academic year (Parts A, B and C) from both Geography and Sport Management.
Candidates must take a total modular weight of 120 in each Part with a minimum modular weight of 50 in each semester, taking into account both compulsory and optional modules. Individual modules taught and assessed over both semesters with a modular weight of 10 may count against either semester 1 or semester 2, depending on the balance of other modular weights between semesters. Where the modular weight of a module taught and assessed over both semesters is 20, this shall be split equally between semesters.
4.1 Part A - Introductory Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 10)
Geography |
||
Code |
Title |
Modular Weight |
GYA106 |
Tutorials |
10 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 60)
Geography |
||
GYA004 |
Geographies of Global Economic Change |
10 |
GYA006 |
Practising Geography – Residential Fieldcourse |
10 |
GYA101 |
Earth System Science |
10 |
Sport Management |
||
PSA003 |
Professional Skills |
10 |
PSA044 |
The Sport Industries |
20 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a modular weight of 20 from Sport Management modules over semesters 1 and 2.
Sport Management |
||
BSA512 |
The Leisure Market |
10 |
PSA024 |
Introduction to Sociology of Sport |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 30)
Geography |
||
GYA104 |
Geographies of Identity |
10 |
GYA110 |
Environmental Hazards: from mitigation to management |
10 |
Sport Management |
||
BSA530 |
Organisational Behaviour |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Sport Management |
||
BSA510 |
Environment of Leisure Management |
10 |
PSA040 |
Sports Enterprise |
10 |
PSA041 |
Olympic Studies |
20 |
4.2 Part B - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2, of which a minimum of 40 must be from Group 1 (20 if GYB327 is selected). Fieldcourse modules GYB328 and GYB901 in Group 2 are mutually exclusive. In addition, candidates must choose a modular weight of 40 from Sport Management modules over semesters 1 and 2.
Geography - Group 1 |
||
GYB210 |
Globalization |
20 |
GYB220 |
Geographies of Social Difference |
20 |
GYB230 |
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYB240 |
Environmental Systems and Resource Management |
20 |
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB327 |
Geographical Research: Design and Practice (pre-requisite for the dissertation) |
20 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 10)
Sport Management |
||
BSB520 |
Principles of Marketing for Sport and Leisure |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB113 |
Geographies of Culture, Media and Representation |
10 |
GYB311 |
River Ecology |
10 |
GYB322 |
Lake System Dynamics |
10 |
GYB328 |
Physical Geography Fieldcourse |
20 |
GYB901 |
Human Geography Fieldcourse – Paris |
20 |
Sport Management |
||
BSB510 |
Human Resource Management |
10 |
BSB530 |
Accounting for Business |
10 |
PSB024 |
Making Sense of Modern Sport |
10 |
PSB051 |
Foundations of Sports Law |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 10)
Sport Management |
||
BSB522 |
The Marketing Mix for Sport and Leisure |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB110 |
Sustainable Urban Geographies |
10 |
GYB201 |
Remote Sensing & GIS |
10 |
GYB308 |
Forest Ecology |
10 |
GYB320 |
Global Migration |
10 |
GYB400 |
Exploring the Ice Ages |
10 |
Sport Management |
||
BSB532 |
Accounting for Managers |
10 |
PSB015 |
Sport, Ideologies and Values |
10 |
PSB032 |
Physical Activity, Sendentary Behaviour and Health |
10 |
PSB044 |
Sport Policy and Politics in Culturally Diverse Societies |
10 |
PSB052 |
Managing Sports Organisations |
10 |
4.3 Part I
Four-year programme - During the year abroad, candidates may undertake either (i) an approved overseas placement as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI002); or (ii) an approved programme of study abroad as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI003).
Alternatively, candidates entering from 2014/15 on the 4-year programme undertaking professional training via an approved industrial/work placement will be registered on GYI004.
4.4 Part C - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2. GYC400 and GYC401 (instances 1 & 2) are mutually exclusive, as are fieldcourse modules GYC308, GYC903 and GYC908. Candidates must also choose a combined modular weight of 40 from Sport Management modules over semesters 1 and 2.
Geography
GYC400 Dissertation 30
The modular weight of GYC400 may be split between semesters in the ratio of either 20:10 or 10:20 depending on the balance of other modular weights selected.
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 20)
Sport Management |
||
PSC049 |
Sport Policy Analysis |
20 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography |
||
GYC104 |
Quaternary Environments |
10 |
GYC107 |
Regional Geography of the UK |
20 |
GYC208 |
Aeolian Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYC211 |
Snow, Ice and Environment |
10 |
GYC212 |
Globalised Urbanisation |
20 |
GYC214 |
Geographies of Children and Youth |
10 |
GYC309 |
Feminist Geographies of Home |
10 |
GYC315 |
Environmental Change and Ecological Response |
10 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 1) |
20 |
GYC903 |
Alpine Studies Fieldcourse |
20 |
Sport Management |
||
BSC120 |
Risk Management |
10 |
BSC522 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
10 |
BSC565 |
Fundamentals of Strategic Management |
10 |
PSC024 |
Sport, the Body and Deviance |
10 |
PSC025 |
Sport and Social Theory |
10 |
PSC045 |
Advanced Sport Marketing |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography |
||
GYC108 |
Climate and Society |
20 |
GYC110 |
GIS, Modelling and Flood Risk Management |
10 |
GYC200 |
Conservation: Principles and Practice |
10 |
GYC205 |
Central America: Dependency and Development |
10 |
GYC308 |
Global Cities Fieldcourse – New York |
20 |
GYC325 |
Geographies of Transnational Mobility and Diaspora |
20 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 2) |
20 |
GYC908 |
Mediterranean Rural Spaces Fieldcourse |
20 |
Sport Management |
||
BSC124 |
Marketing Communications |
10 |
BSC524 |
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Planning |
10 |
PSC023 |
Sport, Celebrity and Place |
10 |
PSC032 |
Physical Activity and Health of Children |
20 |
PSC046 |
Sports Economics |
20 |
PSC047 |
Sports Governance |
20 |
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
In order to progress from Part A to Part B, from Part B to C, and to be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI002 or GYI004 in the programme of study required for Part I.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in International Studies (DIntS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI003 in the programme of study required for Part I.
Subject to the exception specified below, provision will be made in accordance with Regulation XX for candidates who have the right of re-assessment in any Part of the programme to undergo re-assessment in the University's Special Assessment Period (SAP).
Candidates who have accumulated fewer than 60 credits in any Part of the programme may not undergo re-assessment in the University’s SAP. Re-assessment in the SAP will also not be available for certain modules and this is indicated in individual module specifications.
6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the purposes of Final Degree Classification
Candidates' final degree classification will be determined on the basis of their performance in degree level Module Assessments in Parts B and C. The percentage mark for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B 40% : Part C 60% to determine the final programme percentage mark.
Programme Specification
GY BSc (Hons) Geography with Economics
Academic Year: 2014/15
This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided.
This specification applies to delivery of the programme in the Academic Year indicated above. Prospective students reviewing this information for a later year of study should be aware that these details are subject to change as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Study.
This specification should be read in conjunction with:
- Reg. XX (Undergraduate Awards) (see University Regulations)
- Module Specifications
- The teaching, learning and assessment strategies used at Loughborough (available soon)
- What makes Loughborough University programmes and its graduates distinctive (available soon)
- Summary
- Programme aims
- Learning outcomes
- Programme structure
- Progression and weighting
Programme summary
Awarding body/institution | Loughborough University |
Teaching institution (if different) | |
Owning school/department | Department of Geography - pre 2018 |
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body | |
Final award | BSc (Hons)/BSc (Hons) + DPS/DIntS |
Programme title | Geography with Economics |
Programme code | GYUB02 |
Length of programme | The duration of the programme is normally six semesters (three years), or eight semesters (four years) for students who undertake an academic year abroad (Part I). For students entering from 2014/15, the opportunity to undertake professional training via an approved industrial/work placement (Part I) will be available. |
UCAS code | LL17 |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/departments/geography/geographywitheconomics/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published |
1. Programme Aims
- to provide students with an intellectually-stimulating environment within which they can develop knowledge, understanding and skills in both geography and economics;
- to provide students with the opportunity to study a broad curriculum in both human and physical geography and in economics;
- to achieve, through the student learning process, a progressive improvement in academic performance over the degree programme;
- to enhance students’ career and employment prospects on graduating by developing a range of transferable skills embedded in the programme.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external and internal reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
The Benchmark Statements for Geography and Economics
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the potential applications of concepts within a broader critical framework;
- the main methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of data;
- the idea of academic disciplines as dynamic, plural and contested; developed within the broader frameworks of the sciences and humanities;
and within the Geography portion of the programme:
- a range of environments, in the broadest sense, of environmental processes and the impacts of these processes on human activities and vice versa;
- the ways in which representations and interpretations of the world are socially-constructed, and the forms of geographical difference;
- the determinants of temporal and spatial variation in the physical, social, economic and political worlds; and the significance of spatial and temporal scale on physical processes, human processes and on their interactions;
- past patterns of environmental and social changes, and of the processes and conditions that have determined those changes, and the implications for the future;
and within the Economics portion of the programme:
- demonstrate the attributes of a graduate in terms of possessing transferable skills, and the ability to analyse fact and opinion based on the evaluation of evidence;
- communicate knowledge and analysis in an effective and objective manner;
- analyse issues of economic theory and policy using up-to-date models and techniques.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Develop a reflexive approach to learning.
- Abstract and synthesise information.
- Assess the merits of contrasting theories, explanations and arguments.
- Critically evaluate and interpret a range of evidence, including data and text.
- Undertake problem-solving and decision-making.
- Develop a reasoned argument.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to
1. Combine and interpret different types of evidence including data and text.
2. Recognise and critically debate moral and ethical issues underpinning particular debates or enquiries.
3. Employ a range of survey skills for the collection of qualitative and quantitative data and to use appropriate methods for the analysis of these data.
4. Design and execute a piece of research and produce a report.
Additionally, within the Geography portion of the programme
5. Prepare effective maps and diagrams using a range of appropriate technologies.
6. Undertake safe and effective field and laboratory work.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should show competence in:
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Numeracy and computational skills.
- Field and laboratory skills.
- Spatial awareness and observational skills.
- IT and information handling and retrieval.
- Independent study and group work.
- Time management.
4. Programme structure
Candidates must take a total modular weight of 120 in each Part with a minimum modular weight of 50 in each semester, taking into account both compulsory and optional modules. Individual modules taught and assessed over both semesters with a modular weight of 10 may count against either semester 1 or semester 2, depending on the balance of other modular weights between semesters. Where the modular weight of a module taught and assessed over both semesters is 20, this shall be split equally between semesters.
4.1 Part A - Introductory Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 50)
Economics |
||
Code |
Title |
Modular Weight |
ECA001 |
Principles of Macroeconomics |
20 |
ECA002 |
Principles of Microeconomics |
20 |
Geography |
||
GYA106 |
Tutorials |
10 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 30)
Geography |
||
GYA002 |
Geographies of Global Economic Change |
20 |
GYA006 |
Practising Geography – Residential Fieldcourse |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a modular weight of 10 from optional Geography modules.
Geography |
||
GYA101 |
Earth System Science |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULE (total modular weight 30)
Geography |
||
GYA003 |
Quantitative Methods in Geography |
10 |
GYA102 |
Geographies of Identity |
20 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography |
||
GYA110 |
Environmental Hazards: from mitigation to management |
10 |
4.2 Part B - Degree Modules
STUDENTS ENTERING BEFORE 2014/15:
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 40)
Economics (pre-2014/15 entry only) |
||
ECB036 |
Macroeconomics |
20 |
ECB037 |
Microeconomics |
20 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 80 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2, of which at least 40 must be from Group 1. Fieldcourse modules GYB328 and GYB901 in Group 2 are mutually exclusive. Geography modules listed are the same for pre-2014/15 & 2014/15 entry students.
STUDENTS ENTERING 2014/15 & BEYOND:
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 80 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2, of which at least 40 must be from Group 1. Fieldcourse modules GYB328 and GYB901 in Group 2 are mutually exclusive. For students entering from 2014/15 and beyond - in addition, candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 40 from Economics modules over semesters 1 and 2.
Economics (2014/15 entry only so for Part B in 2015/16) |
||
ECB003 |
Introduction to Econometrics |
20 |
ECB004 |
Introduction to Finance |
20 |
ECB005 |
International Economic Relations |
20 |
ECB015 |
Economics of the Financial System |
20 |
ECB030 |
Energy and the Environment |
20 |
Geography - Group 1 |
||
GYB210 |
Globalization |
20 |
GYB220 |
Geographies of Social Difference |
20 |
GYB230 |
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYB240 |
Environmental Systems and Resource Management |
20 |
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB327 |
Geographical Research: Design and Practice (pre-requisite for the dissertation) |
20 |
Semester 1
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Economics (2014/15 entry only so for Part B in 2015/16) |
||
ECB136 |
Transport Economics |
20 |
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB113 |
Geographies of Culture, Media and Representation |
10 |
GYB311 |
River Ecology |
10 |
GYB322 |
Lake System Dynamics |
10 |
GYB328 |
Physical Geography Fieldcourse |
20 |
GYB901 |
Human Geography Fieldcourse – Paris |
20 |
Semester 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Economics (2014/15 entry only so for Part B in 2015/16) |
||
ECB035 |
Economics of the Welfare State |
20 |
Geography - Group 2 |
||
GYB110 |
Sustainable Urban Geographies |
10 |
GYB201 |
Remote Sensing & GIS |
10 |
GYB308 |
Forest Ecology |
10 |
GYB320 |
Global Migration |
10 |
GYB400 |
Exploring the Ice Ages |
10 |
4.3 Part I
Four-year programme - During the year abroad, candidates may undertake either (i) an approved overseas placement as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI002); or (ii) an approved programme of study abroad as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI003).
Alternatively, candidates entering from 2014/15 on the 4-year programme undertaking professional training via an approved industrial/work placement will be registered on GYI004.
4.4 Part C - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose 40 modular weights from Economics modules over semesters 1 and 2 from remaining modules of the same title, not taken at Part B. In addition, candidates must choose 80 modular weights from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2. GYC400 and GYC401 (instances 1 & 2) are mutually exclusive, as are fieldcourse modules GYC308, GYC903 and GYC908.
Economics |
||
ECC011 |
Introduction to Econometrics |
20 |
ECC012 |
Introduction to Finance |
20 |
ECC013 |
International Economic Relations |
20 |
ECC014 |
Economics of the Financial System |
20 |
ECC016 |
Energy and the Environment |
20 |
Geography |
||
GYC400 |
Dissertation |
30 |
The modular weight of GYC400 may be split between semesters in the ratio of either 20:10 or 10:20 depending on the balance of other modular weights selected.
Semester 1
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Economics |
||
ECC019 |
Transport Economics |
20 |
Geography |
||
GYC104 |
Quaternary Environments |
10 |
GYC107 |
Regional Geography of the UK |
20 |
GYC208 |
Aeolian Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYC211 |
Snow, Ice and Environment |
10 |
GYC212 |
Globalised Urbanisation |
20 |
GYC214 |
Geographies of Children and Youth |
10 |
GYC309 |
Feminist Geographies of Home |
10 |
GYC315 |
Environmental Change and Ecological Response |
10 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 1) |
20 |
GYC903 |
Alpine Studies Fieldcourse |
20 |
Semester 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Economics |
||
ECC017 |
Economics of the Welfare State |
20 |
Geography |
||
GYC108 |
Climate and Society |
20 |
GYC110 |
GIS Modelling and Flood Risk Management |
10 |
GYC200 |
Conservation: Principles and Practice |
10 |
GYC205 |
Central America: Dependency and Development |
10 |
GYC308 |
Global Cities Fieldcourse – New York |
20 |
GYC325 |
Geographies of Transnational Mobility and Diaspora |
20 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 2) |
20 |
GYC908 |
Mediterranean Rural Spaces Fieldcourse |
20 |
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
In order to progress from Part A to Part B, from Part B to C, and to be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI002 or GYI004 in the programme of study required for Part I.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in International Studies (DIntS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI003 in the programme of study required for Part I.
Subject to the exception specified below, provision will be made in accordance with Regulation XX for candidates who have the right of re-assessment in any Part of the programme to undergo re-assessment in the University's Special Assessment Period (SAP).
Candidates who have accumulated fewer than 60 credits in any Part of the programme may not undergo re-assessment in the University’s SAP. Re-assessment in the SAP will also not be available for certain modules and this is indicated in individual module specifications.
6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the purposes of Final Degree Classification
Candidates' final degree classification will be determined on the basis of their performance in degree level Module Assessments in Parts B and C. The percentage mark for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B 40% : Part C 60% to determine the final programme percentage mark.
Programme Specification
GY BSc (Hons) Geography and Sports Science
Academic Year: 2014/15
This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided.
This specification applies to delivery of the programme in the Academic Year indicated above. Prospective students reviewing this information for a later year of study should be aware that these details are subject to change as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Study.
This specification should be read in conjunction with:
- Reg. XX (Undergraduate Awards) (see University Regulations)
- Module Specifications
- The teaching, learning and assessment strategies used at Loughborough (available soon)
- What makes Loughborough University programmes and its graduates distinctive (available soon)
- Summary
- Programme aims
- Learning outcomes
- Programme structure
- Progression and weighting
Programme summary
Awarding body/institution | Loughborough University |
Teaching institution (if different) | |
Owning school/department | Department of Geography - pre 2018 |
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body | |
Final award | BSc (Hons)/BSc (Hons) + DPS/DIntS |
Programme title | Geography and Sports Science |
Programme code | GYUB05 |
Length of programme | The duration of the programme is normally six semesters (three years), or eight semesters (four years) for students who undertake an academic year abroad (Part I). For students entering from 2014/15, the opportunity to undertake professional training via an approved industrial/work placement (Part I) will be available. |
UCAS code | FC86 |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/departments/geography/geographyandsportsscience/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published |
1. Programme Aims
- to provide students with an intellectually-stimulating environment within which they can develop knowledge, understanding and skills in both geography and the core sport sciences;
- to provide students with the opportunity to study a broad curriculum in both human and physical geography and in the fields of sport and exercise science and physical education;
- to develop appropriate professional practice;
- to achieve, through the student learning process, a progressive improvement in academic performance over the degree programme;
- to enhance students’ career and employment prospects on graduating by developing a range of transferable skills embedded in the programme.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external and internal reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
The Benchmark Statements for Geography and Sports Science (within Unit 25 Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism)
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the potential applications of concepts within a broader critical framework;
- the main methodologies used in the analysis and interpretation of data;
- the idea of academic disciplines as dynamic, plural and contested; developed within the broader frameworks of the sciences and humanities;
and within the Geography portion of the programme:
- a range of environments, in the broadest sense, of environmental processes and the impacts of these processes on human activities and vice versa;
- the ways in which representations and interpretations of the world are socially-constructed, and the forms of geographical difference;
- the determinants of temporal and spatial variation in the physical, social, economic and political worlds; and the significance of spatial and temporal scale on physical processes, human processes and on their interactions;
- past patterns of environmental and social changes, and of the processes and conditions that have determined those changes, and the implications for the future;
and within the Sports Science portion of the programme:
- the disciplines underpinning human structure and function;
- the effects of sport and exercise intervention, and being able to appraise and evaluate these effects on the individual;
- the skills required to monitor, analyse, diagnose and prescribe action to enhance the learning and performance of sport in both laboratory and field settings;
- the variables involved in the delivery (teaching, instructing, coaching) of enhanced sport performance;
- social, economic and political theory to explain the development and differentiation of sport in society.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Develop a reflexive approach to learning.
- Abstract and synthesise information.
- Assess the merits of contrasting theories, explanations and arguments.
- Critically evaluate and interpret a range of evidence, including data and text.
- Undertake problem-solving and decision-making.
- Develop a reasoned argument.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
1. Combine and interpret different types of evidence.
2. Recognise and critically debate moral and ethical issues underpinning particular debates or enquiries.
3. Undertake safe and effective field and laboratory work.
4. Employ a range of survey skills for the collection of qualitative and quantitative data and to use appropriate methods for the analysis of these data.
5. Design and execute a piece of research and produce a report.
Additionally, within the Geography portion of the programme:
6. Prepare effective maps and diagrams using a range of appropriate technologies.
Additionally, within the Sports Science portion of the programme:
7.Plan and execute appropriate techniques and skills in the practice of sport activities.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should show competence in:
- Verbal and written communication skills.
- Numeracy and computational skills.
- Field and laboratory skills.
- Spatial awareness and observational skills.
- IT and information handling and retrieval.
- Independent study and group work.
- Time management.
4. Programme structure
Modules with a total modular weight of 60 must be studied in each academic year (Parts A, B and C) from both Geography and Sports Science.
Candidates must take a total modular weight of 120 in each Part with a minimum modular weight of 50 in each semester, taking into account both compulsory and optional modules. Individual modules taught and assessed over both semesters with a modular weight of 10 may count against either semester 1 or semester 2, depending on the balance of other modular weights between semesters. Where the modular weight of a module taught and assessed over both semesters is 20, this shall be split equally between semesters.
4.1 Part A - Introductory Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 30)
Geography |
||
Code |
Title |
Modular Weight |
GYA106 |
Tutorials |
10 |
Sports Science |
||
PSA001 |
Teaching and Coaching 1 |
20 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 50)
Geography |
||
GYA004 |
Geographies of Global Economic Change |
10 |
GYA006 |
Practising Geography – Residential Fieldcourse |
10 |
GYA101 |
Earth System Science |
10 |
Sports Science |
||
PSA011 |
Introduction to Pedagogy |
10 |
PSA024 |
Introduction to Sociology of Sport |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 40)
Geography |
||
GYA104 |
Geographies of Identity |
10 |
GYA110 |
Environmental Hazards: from mitigation to management |
10 |
Sports Science |
||
PSA026 |
Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology |
10 |
PSA030 |
Introduction to Physical Activity and Health |
10 |
4.2 Part B - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2, of which a minimum of 40 must be from Group 1 (20 if GYB327 is selected). Fieldcourse modules GYB328 and GYB901 in Group 2 are mutually exclusive. In addition, candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Sports Science modules over semesters 1 and 2.
Geography - Group 1 |
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GYB210 |
Globalization |
20 |
GYB220 |
Geographies of Social Difference |
20 |
GYB230 |
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYB240 |
Environmental Systems and Resource Management |
20 |
Geography - Group 2 |
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GYB327 |
Geographical Research: Design and Practice |
20 |
Sports Science |
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PSB001 |
Teaching and Coaching 2 |
20 |
PSB010 |
Sport and Exercise Pedagogy |
20 |
Semester 1
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography - Group 2 |
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GYB113 |
Geographies of Culture, Media and Representation |
10 |
GYB311 |
River Ecology |
10 |
GYB322 |
Lake System Dynamics |
10 |
GYB328 |
Physical Geography Fieldcourse |
20 |
GYB901 |
Human Geography Fieldcourse – Paris |
20 |
Sports Science |
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PSB024 |
Making Sense of Modern Sport |
10 |
PSB027 |
Acquiring Movement Skills |
10 |
PSB031 |
Psychological Issues and Strategies in Sport |
10 |
Semester 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography - Group 2 |
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GYB110 |
Sustainable Urban Geographies |
10 |
GYB201 |
Remote Sensing & GIS |
10 |
GYB308 |
Forest Ecology |
10 |
GYB320 |
Global Migration |
10 |
GYB400 |
Exploring the Ice Ages |
10 |
Sports Science |
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PSB002 |
Structural Kinesiology |
10 |
PSB015 |
Sport, Ideologies and Values |
10 |
PSB026 |
Psycho-Social Factors in Competitive Sport |
20 |
PSB032 |
Physical Activity, Sendentary Behaviour and Health |
10 |
4.3 Part I
Four-year programme - During the year abroad, candidates may undertake either (i) an approved overseas placement as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI002); or (ii) an approved programme of study abroad as specified by, and subject to the approval of, the Department of Geography (GYI003).
Alternatively, candidates entering from 2014/15 on the 4-year programme undertaking professional training via an approved industrial/work placement will be registered on GYI004.
4.4 Part C - Degree Modules
Semesters 1 and 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Candidates must choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Geography modules over semesters 1 and 2. GYC400 and GYC401 (instances 1 & 2) are mutually exclusive, as are fieldcourse modules GYC308, GYC903 and GYC908. Candidates must also choose a combined modular weight of 60 from Sports Science modules over semesters 1 and 2.
Geography
GYC400 |
Dissertation |
30 |
The modular weight of GYC400 may be split between semesters in the ratio of either 20:10 or 10:20 depending on the balance of other modular weights selected.
Semester 1
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography |
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GYC104 |
Quaternary Environments |
10 |
GYC107 |
Regional Geography of the UK |
20 |
GYC208 |
Aeolian Processes and Landforms |
20 |
GYC211 |
Snow, Ice and Environment |
10 |
GYC212 |
Globalised Urbanisation |
20 |
GYC214 |
Geographies of Children and Youth |
10 |
GYC309 |
Feminist Geographies of Home |
10 |
GYC315 |
Environmental Change and Ecological Response |
10 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 1) |
20 |
GYC903 |
Alpine Studies Fieldcourse |
20 |
Sports Science |
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PSC017 |
Equity and Inclusion in Contemporary Physical Activity |
20 |
PSC024 |
Sport, the Body and Deviance |
10 |
PSC025 |
Sport and Social Theory |
10 |
PSC031 |
Applied Sport and Performance Psychology |
20 |
Semester 2
(i) OPTIONAL MODULES
Geography |
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GYC108 |
Climate and Society |
20 |
GYC110 |
GIS, Modelling and Flood Risk Managament |
10 |
GYC200 |
Conservation: Principles and Practice |
10 |
GYC205 |
Central America: Dependency and Development |
10 |
GYC308 |
Global Cities Fieldcourse – New York |
20 |
GYC325 |
Geographies of Transnational Mobility and Diaspora |
20 |
GYC401 |
Independent Geographical Essay (instance 2) |
20 |
GYC908 |
Mediterranean Rural Spaces Fieldcourse |
20 |
Sports Science |
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PSC018 |
Teaching and Coaching 3 |
20 |
PSC023 |
Sport, Celebrity and Place |
10 |
PSC026 |
Exercise Psychology |
20 |
PSC027 |
Motor Control of Sports Movement |
10 |
PSC032 |
Physical Activity and Health of Children |
20 |
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
In order to progress from Part A to Part B, from Part B to C, and to be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI002 or GYI004 in the programme of study required for Part I.
In accordance with Regulation XI, a Diploma in International Studies (DIntS) will be awarded to candidates who have satisfactorily completed GYI003 in the programme of study required for Part I.
Subject to the exception specified below, provision will be made in accordance with Regulation XX for candidates who have the right of re-assessment in any Part of the programme to undergo re-assessment in the University's Special Assessment Period (SAP).
Candidates who have accumulated fewer than 60 credits in any Part of the programme may not undergo re-assessment in the University’s SAP. Re-assessment in the SAP will also not be available for certain modules and this is indicated in individual module specifications.
6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the purposes of Final Degree Classification
Candidates' final degree classification will be determined on the basis of their performance in degree level Module Assessments in Parts B and C. The percentage mark for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B 40% : Part C 60% to determine the final programme percentage mark.