About the Pathway

We are a community of world-class environmental researchers, high achieving students, government scientists and commercial enterprises working together to address today’s biggest environmental challenges.

For more information, please read our guide on how Pathways work. The following modules are for entry year 2025.

Human Geography

This pathway provides you with an understanding of society, culture, development and issues of globalisation within a framework of environmental issues in the 21st century.

*Please note: some field courses will incur additional costs and are subject to availability

Year One	Year Two	Year Three
Core modules	Core modules	Optional modules
Geographical Skills and Application in a Changing World	Development, Geography, and the Majority World	Africa: Geographies of Transformation
Society and Space - Human Geography	Research Methods in Human Geography	Cities and Globalisation
	Optional modules	Climate and Society
	Being a Geographer: Issues, Ethics and Skills	Dissertation
	Children's Geographies	Dissertation with Work Placement
	Cultural Geography	Environment, Politics and Society in Amazonia
	Economic Geography	*Field Course in Croatia - Water, Society and the Istrian Landscape: Environmental Management in a Mediterranean Context
	Geosocial Spaces	*Field Course in New York - Cultural, Economic, Political and Social Geographies
	Introduction to Eco-Innovation	Food and Agriculture in the 21st Century
	People and the Sea	Geographies of Health: Understanding and Tackling Inequity
	Political Geography	GIS: Principles and Practice
	Spatial Analysis and GIS	Independent Research
		Perspectives on Technology and Environment
		Urban Infrastructure in a Changing World

Physical Geography

You will learn about the main components of our ‘Earth-system’, how environments have changed in the past, what controls the dynamics of environments in the present, and how we can predict changes in the future. All this is studied in the context of an interconnected planet.

*Please note: some field courses will incur additional costs and are subject to availability

Year One	Year Two	Year Three
Core modules	Core modules	Optional modules
Environmental Processes and Systems	Glacial and Fluvial Landscape Processes	Dissertation
Geographical Skills and Applications in a Changing World	Soil Science	Dissertation with Work Placement
	Optional modules	Environmental Remote Sensing and Image Processing
	Aquatic Biogeochemistry	*Field Course in Croatia - Water, Society and the Istrian Landscape
	Atmospheric Science	GIS: Principles and Practice
	Being a Geographer: Issues, Ethics and Skills	Glacial Systems
	Catchment Hydrology	Independent Research
	Environmental Data Visualisation and Analysis	Lakes, Rivers and Estuaries
	Introduction to Eco-Innovation
	Research Methods in Physical Geography
	Spatial Analysis and GIS

To study on any particular Pathway you must meet the entry requirements of that subject. Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and some which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme to complement your main specialism.

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, and the University will make every reasonable effort to offer modules as advertised. In some cases changes may be necessary and may result in some combinations being unavailable, for example as a result of student feedback, timetabling, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes and new research. Not all optional modules are available every year.