Geography
A Level - AQA
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Taught At
Hitchin Boys’ School, Hitchin Girls’ School and The Priory School
Course Overview
Course Overview
The course aims to study the relationship between people and their environment at a variety of scales from local to global. It develops an understanding and knowledge of geographical issues and offers the opportunity to use and develop geographical skills. A Level Geography enables you to appreciate the dynamic nature of the subject; how places, environments and issues change and how people respond to those changes.
Course Content
Course Content
The course covers a range of physical and human geography topics with each school studying a slightly different combination. In addition, all students are required to investigate an area of geography of interest to them. As part of this they are expected to collect data in the field. You will be supported through this with fieldwork opportunities.
The Physical Geography options are; coastal systems and landscapes, hazards, and water and carbon cycles.
Human Geography options are; changing places, contemporary urban environments and global systems and global governance.
You will also complete a non-examined assessment worth 20% of the overall qualification which links to one or more of the topics above.
Geography is a rigorous A Level and is recognised as such by universities and employers alike. Its wide-ranging skills, which include analytical, ICT, statistical, research and presentation, and subject area, means geography students go on to study a wide range of subjects from law to engineering and enter many professions such as working for the Environment Agency, accountancy and marketing.
Course Entry Requirements
5 or above in Geography at GCSE
5 or above in GCSE Mathematics
Minimum APS of 4.5
Course Specification
AQA 7037
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