Course Resources Archive
Geography and Sociology (BSc) - Single Honours Full Time - Course Map
For current students who started their course in 2012/13 academic year and later.
- Course Code: GESDG
- Course Leader: Charlotte Parker
- Senior Tutor(s):
To achieve your intended award you must meet the overall award requirements for your course.
Programme without a placement year
- Take 360 CATs in total, with 120 CATs at each Level.
- Single Honours: take at least 300 CATs from the course including at least 75 CATs at each Level
- Joints: take at least 135 CATs from each subject including at least 30 CATs at each Level
- Pass 300 CATs in total with at least 90 CATs at both Levels 4 & 5 (whilst achieving at least 30% in the remaining 60 CATs to allow them to be condoned) and 120 CATs at Level 6
- Pass compulsory and core modules described in the Course Map
Programme with a placement year
- Take 480 CATs including a 120 CATs placement module and 120 CATs at each Level.
- Single Honours: take at least 300 CATs from the course including at least 75 CATs at each Level
- Joints: take at least 135 CATs from each subject including at least 30 CATs at each Level
- Pass 420 CATs in total (including the placement module).
- Pass at least 90 CATs at both Levels 4 and 210 CATs at Level 5 (whilst achieving at least 30% in the remaining 60 CATs to allow them to be condoned) and 120 CATs at Level 6
- Pass compulsory and core modules described in the Course Map
Level 4
Module | CATs |
---|---|
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
NS4302: Earth Systems & Processes
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO103 |
30 |
NS4303: Living in a Globalised World
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO104 or SY114 |
30 |
NS4401: Introductory Research & Fieldwork in the Social Sciences
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with module CRI111, SY111, GEO111, GEO107, NS4301 |
30 |
NS4403: Sociological Issues
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with SY113 |
30 |
Level 5
Module | CATs |
---|---|
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
NS5401: Sociology in the Real World
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY233 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4402 |
30 |
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following: | |
NS5308: Geographical Enquiry
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO208, GEO209, GEO210, NS5402 |
15 |
NS5402: Data Collection & Data Analysis
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI210, GEO210, SY210, CRI208, GEO208, SY208, NS5101 or NS5308 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4301 or pass NS4401 |
30 |
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include: | |
NS5001: Internship
Restrictions: Only available to ANB, BIO, CRI, GEO, SY, PY |
15 |
NS5205: Biogeography
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO227 or GEO227 |
15 |
NS5301: Fieldwork Elective
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO207 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4301 or pass NS4401 |
15 |
NS5302: Threats to Civilisation | 30 |
NS5303: Ice Age Earth
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO204 |
15 |
NS5304: Conflict & Development | 15 |
NS5305: Cities: Urban Worlds
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO202 |
15 |
NS5306: Fluvial Hydrosystems
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO205 |
15 |
NS5307: Geographic Information Systems
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO206 |
15 |
NS5403: Crimes against Humanity
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY231 |
15 |
NS5404: Gender, Culture and Society | 15 |
NS5405: Challenging Injustice: Welfare, Policy and Control
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with SY220 |
15 |
NS5501: Crime and Society: Theorising Crime
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with CRI229 or CRI230 |
30 |
Level 6
Module | CATs |
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To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
NS6301: Global Futures
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO301 |
15 |
NS6401: Research, Philosophy & Epistemology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY310 or SY319 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5402 or pass NS5101 |
15 |
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following: | |
NS6333: Geography Dissertation
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO333 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5301 and pass NS5308 |
30 |
NS6444: Sociology Dissertation
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY333 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5402 |
30 |
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include: | |
NS6104: Psychology of Gender and Sexuality
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY314 |
15 |
NS6206: Palaeoecology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO327 or GEO327 |
15 |
NS6302: Climate Change
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO305 |
15 |
NS6303: The Postcolonial World
Restrictions: Cannot the counted with GEO304 |
15 |
NS6304: Cities: Space and Culture
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO302 |
15 |
NS6305: River Science and Management
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO306 |
15 |
NS6306: Advanced Geographic Information Systems
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO307 |
15 |
NS6402: Visual Culture & the Information Society
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY313 or SY320 |
15 |
NS6403: Challenges, Risk, and Security in a Global Age
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY321 |
15 |
NS6404: Social Debates on Human Nature
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY316 or SY317 |
15 |
NS6405: Applied Politics for a Global Age | 15 |
NS6503: Environments of crime
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI303 |
30 |
NS6504: Global Crime
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI304 |
15 |