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UG Modules 2011-2012 Single

BSc. Single Honours in Geography 
Module Choices 

Timetables

Level1 (pdf)

Level2 (pdf)

Level3 (pdf) updated 26/10/11

(Revised March 25th 2011)
(This programme may be subject to change)

Year 1

Full-time students are required to take 120 units over the academic year and no more than 60 units per semester. GGY1001, GGY1005, GGY1006 and GAP1007 are required modules and count for 80 units in total. 40 additional units (20 per semester) must be taken in other subjects.

Semester 1

Code ModuleConvenor
C  Environmental Issues BS, PW
GGY1005
C
  Human Geographies of the Modern World CG,NJ,KL (NM,SR,IS,CL,DF)

 

Semester 2

Code ModuleConvenor
C  Dynamic Earth AR, (JMCK)
GGY1006 C  Researching Globalisation NM,IS,CL (CG,NJ,KL,SR,DF)

 

Optional units can be taken in any subject (provided any pre-requisites are met and the timetable fits with the above required modules). Those available within the School include:

Semester 1

Code ModuleConvenor
O

 Introduction to Archaeology

 CM (and all A&P staff)
O  Prehistoric Europe DB, CM
O

 Human Evolution and Ancient Bodies

 EM

 

Semester 2

Code ModuleConvenor
O  Historic Europe: Romans, Barbarians and Crusaders MG, CD, FMcC
GAP1002 O  Reconstructing Past Environments GP, MB

 

Year 2

Full-time students will be required to take 120 units over the academic year and no more than 60 units per semester. GGY2028 and GGY2024 are required modules and count for 40 units in total. 80 additional units (40 in Semester 1, 40 in Semester 2) must be taken.

Students can take only one of the following: GGY2040, GGY2041, GGY2042 or GGY2043.

Students may substitute a total of 20 of the optional GGY/GAP units with 20 units of study in a different subject (e.g. ARP or ALU).

Semester 1

Code ModuleConvenor
C

 Contemporary Approaches to Geographical Enquiry

 DF, NJ, DNL
O  Geographies of Uneven Development NM, SK
O  Processes and Principles of Landscape Development PW, BS, JO
O  Methods for Dating the Past GP, MB, D Brown
O  Climate Change: Science, Impacts and Responses AC, AR, AL, LB, CG

 

Semester 2

CodeUnitsModuleConvenor
C

 Geographical Research

 KL, SAR, IS, CL, CG, BS (and all staff for supervisory meeetings)
O

 Geographies of Economic Restructuring and Social Change

 IS, CL
O

 Sustaining the Biosphere

 HR, KB, NW
O

 Techniques in Earth Science (Cyprus) (cap 40)

 JMcK, AR
O

 Cultural Geographies (Sussex) (cap 40)

 CG, KL
O

 Heritage, Culture and Land Use (Malta) (cap 40)

 SAP, AR
O

 The Mediterranean: Exploring Dynamic Environments (Mallorca) (cap 40)

 HR, NM

 

Modules in other subjects that students may consider taking in place of one of the above optional GGY/GAP modules include:

Semester 1 

Code ModuleConvenor
O

 Environmental Management

 AL
O  Prehistoric Ireland GP

 

Semester 2

Code ModuleConvenor
O

 Introduction to Environmental Economics

 DC
O  Historic Ireland FMcC, CD, MG
O  Environmental Archaeology NW

 

Year 3

Full-time students are required to take 120 units over the academic year and no more than 60 units per semester. GGY3001 is a required module and counts for 20 units in total. 100 additional units (40 in Semester 1, 60 in Semester 2) must be taken. At Level 3 students may substitute a total of 20 of the optional GGY/GAP units (List A) with 20 units of study in a different subject (e.g. List B).

LIST A

Semester 1

Code ModuleConvenor
C

 Dissertation

 SR (and all staff)
O

 Geographies of Global Finance

 NM
O

 Medieval Settlement

 MG
O

 Geography at Work

 IS
O

 Geography, Science and Society

 DF
O

 Advanced GIS

 JMcK
O

 Sea Level Change

 HR
O

 Quaternary Palaeoecology

 KB

 

Semester 2 

Code ModuleConvenor
O  Arid Environments PW
O  Geoforensics AR
O

 Aspects of Urban Development

 SR
O

 Geopolitics of post-Cold War Eurasia

 AF

 

Modules in other subjects that students may consider taking in place of one of the above optional GGY/GAP modules include:

 List B

Semester 1

Code ModuleConvenor
O

 Environmental Assessment

 GH
O  Policies for Environmental Sustainability AL
O

 Monuments and Ritual in European Prehistory

 CM

 

Semester 2

Code ModuleConvenor
O

 Archaeology of the Modern World

 AH
O  Early Mining and Metallurgy DB
O

 Society, Death and Disease

 EM

 

Note: no modules are capped in enrolment except where otherwise indicated.