Programme Specification
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
- Summary
- Aims
- Learning outcomes
- Structure
- Progression & 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 | Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:32:50 BST |
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 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 |
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Code |
Title |
Modular Weight |
GYA106 |
Tutorials |
10 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 60)
Geography |
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GYA004 |
Geographies of Global Economic Change |
10 |
GYA006 |
Practising Geography – Residential Fieldcourse |
10 |
GYA101 |
Earth System Science |
10 |
Management |
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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 |
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GYA104 |
Geographies of Identity |
10 |
GYA110 |
Environmental Hazards: from mitigation to management |
10 |
Management |
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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 |
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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 (pre-requisite for the dissertation) |
20 |
Semester 1
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 30)
Management |
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BSB555 |
Organisation Studies |
10 |
BSB560 |
Principles of Marketing |
10 |
BSB580 |
Operations Management |
10 |
(ii) 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 |
Semester 2
(i) COMPULSORY MODULES (total modular weight 20)
Management |
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BSB562 |
The Marketing Mix |
10 |
BSB572 |
Management Science Methods |
10 |
(ii) OPTIONAL MODULES
Management (either BSB550 or BSB590) |
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BSB550 |
Company Finance |
10 |
BSB590 |
The Contemporary Business Environment |
10 |
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 |
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 |
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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 |
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BSC570 |
Strategic Management |
20 |
(ii) 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 |
Management |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.