Summary: This course gives an insight into many issues, from coastal erosion and global warming to rising global population and food supply. Course description: Topics taken as part of this course include: - Forces influencing our natural environment, from global tectonic processes to the smaller scale landscape processes of coasts and rivers. - Issues affecting people and the places where they live, including how cities and the countryside are changing. - How people are affecting the environment. - Decisions about the use of resources and who makes them. - Current events and problems such as natural disasters, the plight of refugees and the problems of food supply. - Fieldwork investigation, including collecting and analysing evidence. As well as working in class, you will carry out practical fieldwork and take part in events such as the biodiversity conference held at Norwich Castle each year. Geography can be taken with any other subjects, but Geography goes particularly well with; Mathematics or Science subjects as well as; Business Studies, Government and Politics, Sociology and other humanities and social science subjects. Objective: Geography is the study of the earth's surface and atmosphere, human responses to them and, increasingly, the effects of human activity upon them. Assessment: Assessment is through two written exams in each year.
Name: Geography GCE AS Level Qualification title: - Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment Awarding - Created 20160816 12:47:11 Updated 20160816 12:47:11
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