(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)
Subject Specific Learning Outcomes
1. An understanding of human social, economic, political and cultural systems from a spatial and/or environmental perspective.
2. An understanding of geography's intellectual development.
3. An appreciation of the practical contributions made by geographers to debates and policy on societal and environmental issues, and an understanding of their potential for continuing such contributions.
4. The skills necessary to engage with ideas in the social sciences and humanities.
5. Skills in the use of geographical information systems, and the application of qualitative and quantitative analysis to geographical study.
6. Skills in teamwork, investigation, and communication.
Skills Learning Outcomes
1. Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to geography.
2. Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility.
1. Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to geography.
2. Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility.
Approach to assessment
Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules
specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;
- work that covers a restricted area of the discipline;
- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.
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