Education and Geography (Professional Placement Year)

About this programme

Our Geography and Education degree builds your knowledge of Geography alongside your understanding of how education transforms individual outcomes and societies. In your Education modules, you’ll develop a portfolio of skills that employers look for, such as creative thinking, taking initiative, networking, and problem solving. You’ll explore these skills through the lens of sustainability, global citizenship and digital literacy, from local and global perspectives. In Geography, you'll explore environmental and social issues including climate change, migration, disaster risk reduction, river management, and cultural representation. Many of our graduates choose to become teachers in schools, but that's not the only path open to you. We'll support you in achieving your aspirations as a professional educator – however they develop during the degree. Explore the ways that education, society, and organisations are structured, and how these structures impact the wellbeing and opportunities of individuals, groups and communities. We introduce you to education systems from around the world and investigate how education can be used in different ways to change lives. We also look at educational policy and practice and how it can be used to promote social justice. You’ll examine principles of human and physical geography and apply these to contemporary challenges globally and locally. In your second and third years, optional modules and international trips enable you to specialise and develop your interests.