Gain the knowledge and skills to tackle global issues, such as the climate crisis, social inequality, and environmental degradation.
Geographers at Chester are as likely to be researching in a laboratory looking at indicators of environmental change or studying cultural interpretations of landscape in film, as to be using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to plan the location of a wind farm or map the carbon footprint of a rural community. This course allows you to specialize in human or physical geography, or to blend the two. Choose to study in a vibrant, research-active, and friendly department, which adopts innovative approaches to learning to help you develop the knowledge, skills, and understanding sought by graduate employers.
Why study this course with us?
Explore places
– Chester’s proximity to a range of physical and social environments including coasts, rivers, mountains, cities, and remote rural areas enables us to incorporate fieldwork and field-based research throughout our courses. This allows you to explore key processes and issues in human or physical geography first-hand. In addition to UK-based residential fieldwork, we offer international fieldwork opportunities in Norway, Spain, and New York.
Understand environments
- Learn about the human and physical processes shaping our world and the most pressing global environmental issues. Benefit from a flexible program, which allows you to develop specialisms in distinctive physical/human geography areas. Demonstrate your knowledge through a wide range of innovative and real-world authentic assignments, including podcasts, debates, briefings, and consultancy reports.
Influence change
- Our modules are designed to ensure that you develop the knowledge, skills, expertise, and confidence to become an agent of change. Wide-ranging employment-focussed skills are embedded throughout the program (GIS, laboratory analytical methods, environmental monitoring, big data analysis, critical thinking, project management), and we provide an invaluable opportunity for you to build relevant employment and problem-solving experience by working with a graduate employed as a part of a full-time work placement module.
