Geography

Course summary

Geography acts as an excellent bridging subject between the arts and the sciences. It involves the use of techniques and information from each and widens appreciation of one’s own surroundings, as well as of world events and places. Geographers traditionally enter a wide range of careers, from computing to urban planning, from retailing and advertising to architecture and the forces. It is a subject, which produces people with a high level of literacy, numeracy and reporting skills, an ability to collect data, a problem-solving mentality and highlevel computing skills. Geography is taught as a linear subject at A level.