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Education Studies and Geography (BA/BSc) - Joint Honours Full Time - Course Map

For current students who started their course in 2011/12 academic year and earlier.
  • Course Code: EDSAGEO
  • Course Leader: Richard Millican / Phillip Toms
  • Senior Tutor(s):
Each module taken by a student has a credit value (measured in Credit Accumulation and Transfer [CAT] points). Approximately 10 hours of total study time is required per CAT credit. A full-time year is equivalent to 120 CATs for students on an Undergraduate course. To achieve an undergraduate award a student must accumulate a particular number of CATs at Level 4, 5 or 6 as illustrated below: Bachelors Degree without Honours: 300 CATs Bachelors Degree with Honours: 360 CATs (or 480 with year-long placement)

Level 5

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
GEO207: International Fieldwork
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO107
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following:
GEO208: Qualitative Methods 15
GEO209: Quantitative Methods Natural Sciences
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO109
15
GEO210: Quantitative Methods Social Sciences 15
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
BIO228: Ecological Impact Assessment and Monitoring 15
ECS201: Professional Development
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass ECS101
30
EDS202: Contemporary Issues in Education 15
EDS203: Education and Society Around the World 15
EDS204: Educational Research 15
EDS205: Independent Study 15
EDS206: Education in An Ethnically Diverse Society 15
EDS207: Overcoming Barriers to Progress 15
EDS208: First and Second language acquisition, learning and development 15
GEO201: Threats to Civilisation 30
GEO202: Contemporary Urban Issues 15
GEO204: Ice Age Earth 15
GEO205: Fluvial Hydrosystems 15
GEO206: Geographical Information Systems 15
GEO208: Qualitative Methods 15
GEO209: Quantitative Methods Natural Sciences
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO109
15
GEO210: Quantitative Methods Social Sciences 15
GEO211: Conflict & Development 15
HS246: Nature, Culture and Society 15
SY214: Disability and Society 15
TRM201: Tourism Impacts
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass TRM101 or pass TRM102
15

Level 6

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
GEO301: Global Futures 15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
EDS333: Education Studies Dissertation
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EDS204
30
GEO333: Geography Dissertation
Prerequisites: Pass appropriate Level II research methods module
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
BIO328: Environmental Pollution
Prerequisites: COMPULSORY
15
BIO330: Conservation Ecology 15
ECS321: Children and Their Worlds 15
EDS301: Work Based Learning in An Educational Context
Restrictions: Must have an enhanced CRB. Only available for EDS
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EDS201
30
EDS302: Learning to Think and Thinking to Learn 15
EDS303: Education and Community
Restrictions: Must have a current CRB. Only available for EDS
30
EDS305: Education for Change 15
EDS306: Human Development 15
GEO302: Place, Culture and Identity 15
GEO304: The Postcolonial World 15
GEO306: Sustainable Rivers: Science and Management 15
GEO307: Advanced Geographical Information Systems
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO206
15
GEO308: Subject Elective
Prerequisites: Passed a Level II module, congruent with the elect
15
GEO309: Work Placement 15
NS6206: Palaeoecology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO327 or GEO327
15
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