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Undergraduate Course Maps 2012/13

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

For current students who started their course in 2011/12 academic year and earlier.
  • Course Code: GEOAHS
  • Course Leader: Phillip Toms / Iain Robertson
  • 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

Level 5 Notes:

Level 5 Joint students who are planning to take the Disseration in History must include HS240.
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
GEO201: Threats to Civilisation 30
GEO202: Contemporary Urban Issues 15
GEO204: Ice Age Earth 15
GEO205: Fluvial Hydrosystems 15
GEO206: Geographical Information Systems 15
GEO211: Conflict & Development 15
GEO227: Biogeography 15
HS226: Russia and Revolution : 1861-1921 15
HS240: Methods of Historical Enquiry
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS224 or take HS229
30
HS241: THE VICTORIANS: EXPERIENCES , IDENTITIES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS228
30
HS242: Tensions in US Democracy 1917-1973
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS231 or take HS234 or take HS305
30
HS244: Culture and Society in Germany 1918-1989
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS227
15
HS246: Nature, Culture and Society 15
HS247: Crime, Culture and Conflict 30
HS248: Women in Power , 1450-1603 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
GEO333: Geography Dissertation
Prerequisites: Pass appropriate Level II research methods module
30
HS333: History Dissertation
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass HS240
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
BIO330: Conservation Ecology 15
CRI303: Environments of Crime 15
CRI304: Global Crime 15
GEO301: Global Futures 15
GEO302: Place, Culture and Identity 15
GEO304: The Postcolonial World 15
GEO305: Climate Change 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
HS326: Twentieth Century Britain
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot pass HS232 and pass HS322 and pass HS336 and pass HS337
30
HS327: Black America 1890-1970
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot take HS318
30
HS328: Soviet History
Restrictions: In taking this module you cannot pass HS309 or pass HS316
30
HS339: Britain and France 1660 - 1715 15
HS340: Case Studies in Rural Social Protest c. 1815 - 1939 15
HS341: British Women’s History, 1830-1920 15
HS342: The English Revolution 15
NS6204: Pollution in Ecological Systems
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO328
15
NS6206: Palaeoecology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO327 or GEO327
15
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