Geography

Entry Criteria: 5 GCSE grades 9-5, including English and Mathematics, and grade 5 in GCSE Geography (if studied).

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This course is designed to excite your minds, challenge perceptions and stimulate your investigative and analytical skills. The units all reflect the world today and include hazards, regenerating places, coasts and superpowers. There are a variety of fieldwork opportunities in both Y12 and Y13 to enhance your understanding. Throughout this course you will develop a wide range of skills that are transferable to many other A Level subjects, university degrees and careers. Geography is a broad based academic subject which is well respected by employers and geography graduates have one of the highest rates of graduate employment.

• Dynamic landscapes - tectonics, coasts

• Dynamic places - globalisation, regenerating places

• Physical systems - water and carbon

• Human systems - superpowers, health and human rights

• Coursework