Module manager: Emanuel Gloor
Email: e.gloor@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
| GEOG2095 | Skills for Physical Geographers |
| GEOG2117 | Research project and skills in physical geography (geography |
This module is not approved as a discovery module
The module provides the opportunity for students to undertake a piece of independent research and writing on a topic of their choosing. It further develops their skills in research design, data collection and analysis, literature searching and reviewing, and academic writing.
Through undertaking a dissertation, students will:
- Develop a research project
- Undertake an independent piece of original research, analysis and writing
- Manage their own time and project to suit their needs and research programme
- Successfully apply advanced techniques from across their degree programmes to their research
- Demonstrate that they can produce a highly professional piece of work suitable for external review.
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
SSLO1: Plan and design a piece of original geographical research.
SSLO2: Apply an advanced range of quantitative, laboratory, visualisation, geospatial, numerical, field, or computational skills as appropriate for the research.
SSLO3: Collect, interpret, and synthesise different types of quantitative primary and/or secondary data.
SSLO4: Communicate effectively the findings of the original research.
Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:
SKLO1: Effective project management.
SKLO2: Analysis of geographical literature.
SKLO3: Evaluative critical thinking.
SKLO4: Application of digital skills.
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervision | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Supervision | 6 | 0.5 | 3 |
| Lecture | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Private study hours | 393 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 7 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 400 | ||
Verbal feedback is given to students through supervisions and from lab staff during lab work. The interim reports are an opportunity to give written feedback. The first interim report provides formative feedback on the project design and is PFP. The second interim reports provides an opportunity to review data collected and guide the data analysis and writing up process.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Coursework – pass for progression | 0 |
| Coursework | Coursework | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
There is no reading list for this module
Last updated: 11/04/2025
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