Intermediate 2 Geography

This course has three mandatory units:

Physical Environments

Geographical context within the British Isles, studies of a selection of landscape types.

Human Environments

Global geographical context, case studies drawn from ELDC and EMDCs.

Environmental Interactions

Emphasis on global issues and evaluating strategies adopted to manage these.

In all the units there are opportunities to study aspects of both physical and human geography and the ways in which they are interrelated.

A number of geographical methods and techniques to extract, process and analyse information/data will be covered within the units. Their use is part of the course and unit assessment. These methods include:

• Annotation and interpretation of field sketches and photographs
• Interpretation of a variety of maps - Ordnance Survey 1:25000 and 1:50000 scale maps may be used in assessment.
• Construction and interpretation of choropleth, isoline, proportional symbol and topological maps.
• Construction, interpretation and analysis of graphs - line, bar, scatter, pictographs and pie charts.
• Construction and use of surveys and questionnaires and using other primary data.