Geography

Geography allows you to ask about the world in which we live. It makes you question the interaction between the human features and the physical environment. Through geographical enquiry, it allows you to explore real life problems that are affecting the world today. Geography makes you take wise decisions that balance the environment, economic and social concerns in the context of sustainable development.

Geography enables you to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills whilst you decide on solutions to real world problems. It will strengthen your questioning capabilities by explaining ideas that are happening right now. Geography will cause you to develop your enquiry skills. Through collecting information, interpreting pictures and analysing data, you will be able to generate solutions and conclusions to the issues facing the globe today.

Geography allows you to develop lots of transferable skills which can assist you later in life. The ability to think constructively and draw conclusions from a wide range of evidence will provide a big advantage for you because it shows you can interpret and analyse. As well as this, the ability to consider real world issues shows you are able to be adaptable and current.

It is no secret that people who study geography love to travel. This is because of that ability to ask questions. People who take geography are curious about the world and so they go and find out the answers, wherever that may take them. They work with people of different faiths, cultures and backgrounds all over the world. This demonstrates your ability to interact with people from all over the world. This is such an important quality in an ever growing global marketplace.