BSc Human Geography and Planning with a Professional Placement Year (non-accredited)
About this course
BSc in Human Geography and Planning with a Professional Placement Year (non-accredited), an undergraduate degree exploring spatial change, urban planning and the relationships between societies and environments. Core topics include Research Methods. Students undertake a mandatory 12-month professional placement year in year three. The first year introduces foundational ideas through modules such as The Geographical Imagination: An Introduction to Human Geography, Urban Economies, Making Knowledge: Evidence and Practice, and Key Issues in Urban Planning. The second year advances core knowledge via Geographical Ideas and Developing Research Methods. Optional modules across the programme allow students to explore diverse areas such as Site Planning and Development Valuation, Regulating Development: Planning Law and Policy, Sustainable Transport, and Digital Planning. The final year concludes with a compulsory Research Dissertation alongside further specialised study.
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Entry requirements
A level: ABB
Modules
- The Geographical Imagination: An Introduction to Human Geography
- Urban Economies
- Making Knowledge: Evidence and Practice
- Key Issues in Urban Planning
- Society, Diversity and Planning
- Cities
- The Global Countryside
- Border Spaces: Identities, Cultures and Politics in a Globalising World
- Designing Places and Plans
- Geographical Ideas
- Developing Research Methods
- Spaces of Production: Economic Geography
- Political Geography: Place, Space and Power
- Site Planning and Development Valuation
- Regulating Development: Planning Law and Policy
- Cultural Geographies: Places and Practices
- Social Geography: Spaces of Inequality and Welfare
- Sustainable development: Concepts, Practices and Challenges
- Development and the Global South
- Heritage, Regeneration and Inequality
- Cynllunio ar gyfer Iechyd a Lles Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol
- Engaging Communities
- Human Geography and Planning (non-accredited) 12-month Professional Placement
- Research Dissertation
- Planning Theory and Practice
- Sustainable Transport
- Cities and Social Justice
- Gender, Space and Place
- Mobilities: Travel, Tourism and Communication
- Infrastructure Development: Swift, Smart and Sustainable?
- Climate Change & Environmental Governance
- Researching Contemporary Issues in Geography and Planning
- Geographies of Race and Power
- Digital Planning
- Advanced Economic Geography: Local and Regional Development
- Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
Questions about this course
What grades do I need for BSc Human Geography and Planning with a Professional Placement Year (non-accredited) at Cardiff University?
The typical offer is ABB at A level.