Geography A-Level AQA
Course entry requirements: English Language and Maths at grade 6 or above and Geography at grade 5 and above If studied at GCSE level (or equivalent GCSE).
OVERVIEW OF COURSE: The AQA specification offers an opportunity to excite students minds, challenge perceptions and stimulate their investigative and analytical skills. The course content gives students the opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of physical and human geography, to study units which reflect the world today, and to become critical, reflective and independent learners.
| Paper 1 – Physical Geography
Section A: Water and carbon cycles |
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| Paper 2 – Human Geography
Section A: Global systems and global governance Section B: Changing places |
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| Field work – What’s assessed
Students complete an individual investigation which must include data collected in the field. The individual investigation must be based on a question or issue defined and developed by the student relating to any part of the specification content. |
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WHERE CAN THIS COURSE TAKE ME? Geography graduates tend to be fairly open-minded and interested in the world around them. There are a broad range of careers open to a geography graduate. You could do anything from working in the war room of a royal navy vessel, to working with the environment agency, running housing schemes, or working almost anywhere in the public sector. With further qualifications or training, you could teach geography, do urban design or town planning, or become a chartered surveyor. In the last few years some of our students went on to study degrees in Development Geography at Bath Spa, Marine & Freshwater Biology at Hull, and Geography at Southampton, Swansea and Birmingham.
I CAN FIND OUT MORE INFORMATION BY;
Visiting some of the websites: Geographyinthenews.rgs.org, Earthweek.com, Oxfam.org.uk, Worldmapper.org Geography.org.uk, Geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk