IBO Level 3 Certificate in HL Geography

Course summary

The aims of the geography course at SL and HL are to enable students to: • Develop an understanding of the dynamic interrelationships between people, places, spaces and the environment at different scales. • Develop a critical awareness and consider complexity thinking in the context of the nexus of geographic issues, including: º acquiring an in-depth understanding of how geographic issues, or wicked problems, have been shaped by powerful human and physical processes. º synthesizing diverse geographic knowledge in order to form viewpoints about how these issues could be resolved. • Understand and evaluate the need for planning and sustainable development through the management of resources at varying scales.