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Programme structure: Geography (BSc) - what's running in 2024/25

Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Teaching Block
Key Concepts in Human Geography GEOG10010 20 Mandatory TB-4
Key Concepts in Physical Geography GEOG10009 20 Mandatory TB-4
Geography: Past, Present and Future GEOG10007 20 Mandatory TB-1
Introduction to Quantitative Geography GEOG10008 20 Mandatory TB-2
World in Crisis? GEOG16001 20 Mandatory TB-1
Plus 20 credit points from the following:
Sustainable Development UNIV10001 20 Optional TB-2
City Futures: Migration, Citizenship, and Planetary Change UNIV10005 20 Optional TB-2
Creative Futures: Tools for Changing the World UNIV10007 20 Optional TB-2
Understanding global problems using data: inequality, climate change and the economy UNIV10008 20 Optional TB-2
Decolonise the Future! UNIV10009 20 Optional TB-2
Science of Happiness UNIV10010 20 Optional TB-2
Students may choose to take a language unit at level C/4 from the University-Wide Language Programme (UWLP) as their optional unit.
Certificate of Higher Education   120    

Progression/award requirements

Unit Pass Mark for Undergraduate Programmes:

  • 40 out of 100 – for level 4, 5 & 6 units
  • 50 out of 100 – for level 7 units

For details on the weightings for classifying undergraduate degrees, please see the Agreed Weightings, by Faculty, to be applied for the Purposes of Calculating the Final Programme Mark and Degree Classification in Undergraduate Programmes.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Please refer to the specific progression/award requirements for programmes with a preliminary year of study, the Gateway programmes and International Foundation programmes.

Exit awards

All undergraduate degree programmes allow the opportunity for a student to exit from a programme with a Diploma or Certificate of Higher Education.

  • To be awarded a Diploma of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 240 credit points, of which at least 100 must be at level 5.
  • To be awarded a Certificate of Higher Education, a student must have successfully completed 120 credit points at level 4.

Integrated Master's degrees may also allow the opportunity for a student to exit from the programme with an equivalent Bachelor's degree where a student has achieved 360 credit points, of which 100 must be at level 6, and has successfully met any additional criteria as described in the programme specification.

The opportunities for a student to exit from one of the professional programmes in Veterinary Science, Medicine, and Dentistry with an Award is outlined in the relevant Programme Regulations (which are available as an annex in the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes).

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