Excited to learn more? For a taster of what you can expect to study on our Geography and Management BSc (Hons) course, take a sneak preview of some of the modules you may have the opportunity to study below.
Semesters 1 & 2
Compulsory
Academic and Professional Skills for Geography
The aims of this module are for students to:
- develop a critical awareness of the intellectual diversity of geographical ideas and practice
- enhance students' abilities across a range of subject-specific academic and professional skills.
Optional
Quantitative Business Skills A
The aims of this module are:
- Introduce students to a variety of mathematical and statistical tools that are used in management and its professions.
- Ensure that students have the requisite mathematical, statistical and modelling skills that will be necessary to study the quantitative business and management techniques presented in subsequent parts of their management education.
- Develop confidence in, the use of industry standard packages for business and management purposes.
- Develop relevant transferable skills.
Quantitative Business Skills B
The aims of this module are:
- Introduce students to a variety of mathematical and statistical tools that are used in management and its professions.
- Ensure that students have the requisite mathematical, statistical and modelling skills that will be necessary to study the quantitative business and management techniques presented in subsequent parts of their management education.
- Develop confidence in, the use of industry standard packages for business and management purposes.
- Develop relevant transferable skills.
Semester 1
Compulsory
Principles of Finance
The aims of this module are to:
- Provide an introduction to core issues in corporate finance.
- Provide an understanding of how corporate finance relates to other corporate managerial activities.
- Develop relevant transferable skills.
Organisational Behaviour
The aims of this module are:
- To introduce students to a sound foundation of behavioural and organisational concepts for subsequent management modules.
- To develop a sensitive awareness and clear understanding of how people work individually, in groups and within organisations.
- To encourage an openness to new ideas and an awareness that in many situations there is a range of alternatives which should be evaluated.
Economic and Political Geography
The aims of this module are to introduce students to key concepts and debates in economic and political geography, examine case studies of economic and political change in the global North and global South, familiarise students with writers and texts in economic and political geography.
Practising Geography
The aim of this module is to introduce students to some key geographical themes and a range of practical techniques for collecting, analysing and interpreting data relevant to human and physical geographical research questions.
Earth System Science
The student will gain a broad understanding of the basic characteristics and functions of physical and biogeographical Earth systems and the sensitivity of such environmental systems to perturbations, both natural and human-made, on a variety of time-scales ranging from seasonal to geological.
Semester 2
Compulsory
Introduction to Accounting
The aims of this module are to:
- Provide an introduction to financial accounting, its key concepts and context.
- Develop students' skills in preparing and interpreting financial statements.
- Explore the subjective nature of financial reporting, its benefits and its limitations.
- Develop students' analytical and written presentational skills.
- Develop and enhance transferable skills.
Management of Human Resources
The aims of this module are:
- To build on the pre-requisite module.
- To examine critically the role of the Human Resource Management (HRM) function within the contemporary organisation.
- To develop a clear understanding of the role of the HRM function in maintaining an equitable relationship between employer and employee.
Social and Cultural Geography
The aims of this module are to introduce students to key concepts in social and cultural geography, examine case studies of social and cultural change in the global North and global South, and familiarise students with writers and texts in social and cultural geography.
Environmental Hazards
The module aims to provide you with an understanding of the diversity of environmental hazards across a range of spatial and temporal scales, examining their impacts on and interactions with society. Through an interdisciplinary approach, this module explores the causes, impacts and risks associated with different environmental hazards, to understand how to sustainably manage and mitigate the destructive power of nature.
Semesters 1 & 2
Optional
Remote Sensing & GIS
The module will introduce the use of GIS and remote sensing systems as a means of addressing geographical questions through the use of digital geospatial data. Students will explore a variety of primary and secondary data acquisition methods including satellite-based remote sensing and the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).
They will engage in the organisation, manipulation, analysis and presentation of spatial data using GIS. Students will be able to use knowledge and skills from this module in practical project work. Examples will be drawn from both physical and human geography in the context of land use change and urban environments. Focus will be given to the development of those key and transferable hands-on skills of particular interest to graduate employers.
Globalization
This module aims to:
- develop your understanding of how political, economic, cultural and development geographies are both shaping and impacted by globalization
- provide you with the geographical tools and theories necessary to interrogate critically contemporary and historical events as they relate to globalization
Social Difference
This module aims to:
- Develop an understanding of changes in the nature of geographical research about social difference over time.
- Develop an awareness of how social differences interact in a range of ways across space, place and time. This will include examining processes of social change in post-colonial societies.
Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
The aim of this module is to introduce students to a range of the physical processes which shape the Earth's surface, and the landforms and landscapes that are the result.
Environmental Systems and Resource Management
This module provides a scientific basis for understanding the spatial and temporal patterns of environmental systems. It explores the interaction of these realms and assesses aspects of their management or mismanagement as resources that are useful to human endeavour.
Physical Geography Research: Design and Practice
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the issues involved in the conception, design and execution of research projects. The module supports undergraduate research projects and dissertations in physical geography. It provides students with a theoretical and practical basis for choosing appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, analysis, interpretation and communication.
Human Geography Research: Design and Practice
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the issues involved in the conception, design and execution of research projects. The module supports undergraduate research projects and dissertations in human geography. It provides students with a theoretical and practical basis for choosing appropriate quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection, analysis, interpretation and communication.
Semester 1
Compulsory
Organisation Studies
The aims of this module are:
- To develop a social scientific understanding of organisational theories, themes, concepts and practices.
- To encourage a challenging, questioning perspective on organisational behaviour, research and ideas.
Principles of Marketing
The aim of this module is to introduce students to the principles of marketing and the role of marketing management, in and the impact of internet marketing in a variety of organisational settings (Retail, industrial, service and non-profit orientated).
Management Science Methods
The aims of this module are:
- To ensure that students have an understanding of the key principles, models and techniques used to tackle management decision problems.
- To develop skills in the analysis and modelling of management situations and approaches to evaluation and assessment of alternatives in complex scenarios.
- To develop core concepts and skills required to effectively support managers faced with decision problems.
Optional
Urban Geographies
The aim of this module is to use a geographical perspective to explore leading-edge processes of urban change and to critically analyse urban policy.
River Science
The aim of this module is to introduce the fundamentals of river science. The module focuses on the 'Stream in its Valley' and as such, emphasises those processes linking the main channel with the adjacent floodplain.
Understanding our Environmental Footprint
The aim of this module is to explore the purpose, needs, importance and challenges of monitoring environments that are changing because of human activity. The module focuses on aquatic systems (rivers, lakes, estuaries, coasts and the open ocean) as naturally highly variable, and increasingly impacted, environments that are both sinks of, and pathways for, society's environmental pressures in the Anthropocene. However, it is also of relevance to the atmospheric, terrestrial, and human systems to which aquatic environments are connected.
Physical Geography Fieldcourse
The aims of this module are for students to develop an understanding of both contemporary environmental processes and the importance of past environments in understanding the modern environment. Students will gain practical experience in a range of field and laboratory techniques in physical geography.
Your Future Career: Preparing for the World of Work
What do you know? What are skills? Where are they going to take you? This module will help you to answer those questions by building on transferrable skills and encouraging you to reflect on your learning. In addition, you’ll learn about the UK job market, and how to negotiate a range of recruitment tasks including decoding job specifications, writing an application, interviews, psychometric tests and the use of AI. Combine these with your degree and graduate with confidence.
Semester 2
Compulsory
Operations Management
The aims of this module are:
- to provide an understanding of the production/operations management function in both manufacturing and service industries,
- to introduce students to the key issues and techniques in operations management;
- to provide a wider scope of operations management in terms of its application and the interface between production, supply chain management and the use of IT and modern technology in operations.
The Marketing Mix
The aims of this module are:
- To build on the prerequisite marketing module
- To examine the nature of the marketing mix and the contribution of each of the marketing mix elements to an effective marketing strategy.
Optional
Company Finance
The aim of this module is to examine the background to the financing of companies; the methods used to raise finance; and the implications of using different sources in an international context.
The Contemporary Business Environment
The aims of this module are to examine some of the local, national and international factors which influence business organisations.
Forest Ecology
The aim of this module is to introduce students to some key ecological processes in forest ecosystems. This will be focussed on assessing carbon storage and ecology using practical, problem-based and inquiry-based learning based on a 'real-life' consultancy scenario. Teaching will be student-led and involve field work on campus.
Global Migration
The aims of this module are to:
- familiarise students with contemporary trends in global migration and the social, political, and economic dynamics underlying migration patterns;
- engage students in contemporary theoretical debates regarding the causes of migration and its broader impact on both sending and receiving countries; and
- introduce students to current political debates regarding citizenship, migrants' rights and inclusion.
Human Geography Fieldcourse
The aim of this module is to give students first-hand experience of a major city (which may be in the UK or overseas). Students will be familiarised with a range of field study techniques in urban and cultural geography which will enable them to acquire an in-depth understanding of the processes underlying contemporary city development and their historical context, and to interpret relevant urban theorisation.
Semesters 1 & 2
Optional
Geography Dissertation
The aim of this module is for Joint and Combined Honours Geography students to be provided with the opportunity to undertake personal research with suitable guidance into any field of geographical study.
Semester 1
Compulsory
Strategic Management
The aims of this module are:
- to extend and build on pre-requisite modules in Marketing, Accounting and Human Resource Management;
- to develop an appreciation of how organisations act strategically at the business level;
- to encourage an openness to new ideas and an awareness that in many situations there is a range of options which should be evaluated;
- to develop an appreciation of the global and local contexts in which strategy is formed;
- to develop the ability to think critically about overarching strategic concepts
Optional
Glacial Environments and Landscapes
Glaciers and ice sheets are experiencing major change and are expected to change further during the coming century, in response to global climate change. This module will explore the key features and processes associated with glaciers and glacial environments. Specific aims of this module are for students to examine:
(i) the characteristics, dynamics and operation of the worlds glaciers, ice sheets and ice-influenced environments and their contemporary response to ongoing climate change.
(ii) the geomorphological processes and landforms associated with ice-masses and glacial environments.
(iii) the effect of spatial and temporal variations in the operation of glacial processes and their surface expression in glacerised and glaciated landscapes.
The module will also cover focus contemporary issues and state-of-the-art knowledge in glacerised and glaciated environments through time.
Climate Change: Cooperating with the Future
The aims of this module are that students:
- achieve a sound understanding of the evidence for human-driven climate change and of how it undermines the habitability of the Earth;
- develop a critical appreciation of the impacts of climate change on specific societal spheres of activity, such as health, sport and security;
- build a strong appreciation for the importance of decarbonisation, by practising carbon action planning in the context of a university.
Landscape Evolution and GIS
The aims of this module are that students examine:
- the spatial and temporal scales of landscape evolution and the processes that cause landscape change
- a range of geospatial tools and techniques for analysing and interpreting landscape evolution across scales
Employment, Work and Life
Drawing on contemporary examples, the central aim of this module is for students to examine the strategies different social groups adopt in order to make a living in uncertain economic times.
Geographies of Housing and Home
The aim of this module is for the student to evaluate the multiple geographies of housing and home.
Independent Geographical Essay
The aim of this module is to give students the opportunity to explore and research an aspect of Geography of their choice.
Dryland Environment Fieldcourse
This fieldcourse is at an additional cost to tuition fees.
The aim of this module is for students to develop an understanding of the geomorphology, biogeography and climatology of dryland environments. Students will gain practical experience in a range of field and laboratory techniques including process monitoring, geomorphological mapping, sedimentology and microclimate data analysis.
Urban Political Geographies Fieldcourse
The aims of this module are to:
(a) introduce students to the diverse contemporary human geographies of a major city;
(b) familiarise students with a range of field techniques in urban, social and political geography;
(c) equip students with experience of constructing informative visual resources;
(d) enhance practical and transferable skills through group, student-centred and co-operative learning in a fieldwork environment.
Corporate Finance
The aims of this module are:
- to provide a more advanced treatment of core issues in corporate finance; in particular, the role of uncertainty and information flows in determining asset prices;
- to provide a more detailed understanding of how corporate finance relates to other corporate managerial activities;
- to develop relevant transferable skills.
Business Systems
The aims of this module are:
- To develop an appreciation of the use of Management Information Systems in business contexts, particularly in management planning, decision-making and control.
- To develop a critical perspective on Information Systems within contemporary organisations and society.
- To build on previous modules which introduced management aspects of Information Systems and on students' experience of working with such systems during the Industrial & Professional Studies year.
International Human Resource Management
The aims of this module are:
- To build on previous Human Resource Management modules.
- To examine critically the role of the Human Resource Management (HRM) in an international context.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The aims of this module are:
- To present a range of issues on managing entrepreneurship and innovation.
- To present and discuss these issues for both large multinational corporations (MNCs) and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
- To present a range of frameworks and tools in support of managing entrepreneurship and innovation.
- To develop relevant transferable skills.
Semester 2
Optional
Rural Futures
This module aims to:
- Develop your understanding of how and why the 'rural' is fundamental to understanding our past, present and future;
- Provide you with the knowledge and tools to critically evaluate the impact of rural processes, policies and planning on people and places.
Conservation: Principles and Practice
This module aims to explore the history, approaches and techniques associated with the conservation of ecological communities, habitats, landforms and archaeological sites, and the potential conflict between legitimate economic and social activities.
Aeolian Processes and Landforms
The aims of this module are for students to examine:
- the physical attributes of environments where wind-blown sand and dust dominate (aeolian environments); and
- the effect of spatial and temporal variations in the operation of aeolian processes and their surface expression in contemporary landscapes.
Environmental Change in the Anthropocene
The aim of this module is to provide students with an understanding of some of the major drivers of change affecting natural environments at varying spatial scales, the ecological response of both terrestrial and aquatic systems, and how such changes can themselves have impacts on human activity and society. Knowledge of contemporary functioning of major ecological systems will be combined with evidence from palaeoenvironmental archives to explore the relationships between environmental stressors, and ecological systems, today and in the past. The module will include the use of various types of evidence (e.g. documentary, inventory, palaeoenvironmental) and modelling approaches to understand how global biogeochemical cycles and major ecosystems (e.g. tropical forests, coastal regions) have changed over time. Understanding will be deepened by interrogation of real-world datasets in the practicals, which will form the basis for the assessed coursework report.
Mobilities, transnationalism and diaspora
The aims of this module are to:
- outline the concepts and typologies related to the study of transnational mobilities, transnationalism and diaspora;
- analyse the nature and geographies of transnational mobilities, transnationalism and diaspora using a theoretical and a contextualised case study approach;
- evaluate the outcomes of transnational mobilities and diasporic networks.
Independent Geographical Essay
The aim of this module is to give students the opportunity to explore and research an aspect of Geography of their choice.
Geographies of Education Virtual Fieldcourse
The aim of this module is for the student develop an understanding of contemporary geographical education in different national contexts.
Marketing Strategy and Planning
The aims of this module are to:
- Build on pre-requisite modules and students' experience during their Industrial and Professional Studies placement.
- Synthesise students' understanding of marketing by exploring issues and skills in the area of strategic marketing management, and in the context of the dynamic environment in which Marketing now operates.
- Develop relevant transferable skills.
Project Management
The aims of this module are:
- To provide students with a critical theoretical and practical understanding of key topics in managing projects.
- To provide students with an understanding of the role of a project manager.
- To develop a critical appreciation of business and interpersonal skills relevant to managing projects.
Leadership & Interpersonal Skills
The aim of this module is to examine the roles of leadership and interpersonal skills in achieving effective teamwork, motivation and successful organisational performance by organisations and individuals.
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Planning
The aims of this module are:
- To build on and apply concepts presented in semester one in the prerequisite module, through the creation of a business plan for a real or imaginary business.
- To develop relevant transferable skills.
The information above is intended as an example only, featuring module details for the current year of study. Modules are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to future changes – revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year. Please also see Terms and Conditions of Study for more information.