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