BSc Geography (Human) with Professional Experience

The BSc Human Geography with Professional Experience course offered by the University of Reading is a four-year undergraduate program designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of human geography's approach to the world's significant social, economic, and environmental challenges. This course provides students a year of professional experience along with the knowledge and skillset of human geography.Course Content: The curriculum of this course includes an extensive list of modules where students will study topics like understanding human geography, geographical information systems, political and economic geography, historical geography and much more. This course provides solid foundations in geographical theory, methods and skills in the first year. The second year focuses on developing more robust, specialized knowledge and research skills in human geography. In the third year, students take a year-long professional placement. In the final year, students will write a dissertation on a topic of their choice under expert supervision.Key Modules: Some of the key modules covered in this course include 'Understanding Human Geography', 'Qualitative Research Designs and Techniques', 'Geographical Information Systems', 'Climate Change: Science and Society', 'Environment and Development', 'Economic Geography', 'Environmental Management', 'Reading Landscapes', 'Historical Geography', and 'Dissertation'. Accreditations: This course is accredited by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). Future Careers: This course prepares the students for careers in a wide range of sectors including environmental management, retail location, geospatial consultancy, town and country planning, government and policy, education, heritage management to name just a few. The placement opportunity that this course provides significantly increases students' employability as they gain valuable work experience.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.