Geography

Course summary

Geography is the study of Earth’s landscapes, peoples, places and environments. Studying Geography at A Level enables students to explore and evaluate contemporary geographical questions and issues such as the consequences of globalisation, responses to hazards, water insecurity and climate change. This is made possible through developing an in-depth understanding of physical and human geography, including understanding the complexities of people and environmental questions and issues. Due to its multidisciplinary approach, the study of geography encourages students to become critically analytical, reflective and independent learners. Geographers learn how to carry out data analysis, and how to understand and interpret current affairs and world issues. They learn how to use geographic information systems that turn maps from a two-dimensional representation of a country’s physical contours into a tool that showing social features and attitudes: not simply where people live, but how and what they think. They learn about the physics of climate change, and the interaction of weather events and flood risk, and the way people’s behaviour is influenced by the space around them.