Geography

Course summary

Aims of the course • An engaging and contemporary issues-based approach, enabling students to explore and evaluate contemporary geographical questions and issues such as the consequences of globalisation, responses to hazards, water insecurity and climate change. • Supports progression to undergraduate-level geography. • The specification content allows students to develop an in-depth understanding of physical and human geography, the complexity of people and environment questions and issues, and to become critical, reflective and independent learners. Course content Paper 1 (9Geo/01): Physical Geography. Four Physical Geography topics will be chosen: Tectonic Processes and Hazards, Landscape Systems, Processes and Change, The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity, The Carbon Cycle and Energy Securit. Paper 2 (9Geo/02): Human Geography. Students will study topics from within the following four units; Globalisation, Shaping Places, Superpowers, Global Development and Connections.