Geography is a popular subject at A Level; the course offers a natural progression from GCSE and builds on the fundamental skills acquired. This course will teach students exciting topics to understand the nature of physical and human geography, whilst unpicking the debates surrounding contemporary challenges facing the world today.
During the course you are given the opportunity to engage with the relationship of human populations to each other over space and time, and to study the relationship between human populations with their physical environment at a variety of scales from the local to the global. You will also be encouraged to consider your own role in relation to themes and issues being studied and choose between specialised content, including a dedicated fieldwork NEA.
Learning through Geography – whether gained through formal learning or experientially through fieldwork and expeditions – helps us all to be more socially and environmentally sensitive, informed and responsible citizens and employees.
Students who study Geography possess an extremely marketable and sought‐after range of knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
Course Breakdown
Paper 1: Physical Geography
2 hrs 30 minutes 40%
Paper 2: Human Geography
2 hrs 30 minutes 40%
NEA 20% Non examined Assessment, an independent piece of fieldwork.
