Geography

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this major, students should be able to:

• Acquire a broad knowledge of geography's major concepts, theoretical perspectives and key debates, past and present;
• Understand the dynamic and complex connections between people, place and environments, across a variety of scales;
• Develop a capacity for problem solving and research skills to enable the investigation of social and environmental processes and problems;
• Appreciate different ways of knowing, and of different ways of doing research;
• Raise and answer questions about the dynamic and complex connections between people, place and environments in order to work towards a more equitable world;
• Act as informed and critically discerning participants in providing interpretations of, and solutions to, social and environmental problems;
• Articulate the relationship between diverse forms of geographical knowledge and the social, historical and cultural contexts that produced them;
• Employ knowledge and skills acquired in field classes to their future life and work;
• Display professional values and work effectively with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds;
• Communicate geographical theories and concepts effectively to professional and lay audiences and in oral and written formats;
• Demonstrate the capacity for critical thought, self and peer assessment, and learning and organisational skills in both independent and group work;
• Recognise ethical problems and possible solutions in geographical research and professional geographical practice.