If you are interested in a course that takes you out into the field and brings learning to life then choose Geography!
Unit 1: Global Geographical Issues: This unit helps you delve into hazardous earth, monitoring volcanic eruptions and responding to earthquakes. You’ll get to explore world trade and the changing distribution of power and wealth between countries in development dynamics. Finally, you’ll make a journey into challenges of an urbanising world.
Unit 2: UK Geographical Issues: You’ll examine the UK’s evolving physical landscape including river processes and pressures. Step into the UK’s evolving human landscape by studying dynamic UK cities such as London. Ultimately you will get out in the field on 2 day trips to the coast, studying coastal processes and management and to Canary Wharf to collect primary data, analyse your findings and evaluate what you discovered as part of your geographical investigations.
Unit 3: People and Environmental Issues: You will learn to improve your skills of communication and interpretation and hone your ability to manipulate and analyse data. This unit will give you the chance to solve problems and to think clearly, critically and constructively in order to find solutions to the problems we study. Within this unit you will tackle issues surrounding people and the biosphere and explore how actions have consequences in forests under threat. Finally, you’ll face the challenge of dwindling fossil fuels in consuming energy resources.
Assessment Unit 1: Global Geographical Issues (37.5% of the course) • Written paper: 1 hour 30 minutes. Unit 2: UK Geographical Issues (37.5% of the course) • Written paper: 1 hour 30 minutes. Unit 3: People and Environmental Issues – Making Geographical Decisions (25% of the course) • Written paper: 1 hour 30 minutes. Potential Pathways Geography contains a plethora of transferable skills, enabling you to go on to a range of future options including A-levels and further education and apprenticeship courses. Geography will support your application for a range of Post-16 Level 3 courses, if a 9-6 grade is achieved, or a level 2 course if a 5 or 4 grade is achieved.