Course Description
Our Geography MA/MSc course provides you with an excellent foundation in advanced Geography. The course will offer you comprehensive study opportunities in the geographical fields of your choice:
- The MA pathway concentrates on human geography, including environment and development, environmental policies and politics, geopolitics, urbanisation and globalisation.
- The MSc focuses on physical geography, particularly modules available on the Environmental Monitoring, Modelling & Management programme.
Key benefits
- You will be studying innovative modules in a range of disciplines taught by staff who are recognised leaders in their fields.
- Our recently refurbished accommodation offers high-quality teaching and social facilities.
- Our Geography department is one of the largest in the UK
- The study programme is highly flexible and can be tailored to reflect your academic interests.
Entry Requirements
2:1 undergraduate degree (or international equivalent, e.g. GPA of 3.3 from a US University).
Candidates who do not achieve a 2:1 but have professional or voluntary experience will also be considered. Mature candidates will be considered favourably.
Fees
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/fees-and-funding/tuition-fees
Student Destinations
National and international consultancies and NGOs; governments; charities; research organisations; business, journalism and teaching.
Module Details
Core modules (60 credits):
Compulsory modules (20 credits):
Optional Modules
Optional modules in Geography (100−110 credits):
Other Optional Modules Available to Students on this Programme:
Up to 20 credits of Level 7 modules from any KCL Departments or Institutes outside of Geography.
- Boundaries, Sovereignty & The Territorial State
- Community, Vulnerability And Disaster Risk
- Conceptualising Cities
- Critical Geographies Of Terrorism
- Development And Environmentalism In The ‘South’
- Disasters And Development
- Environment, Livelihoods & Development In The South
- Environmental Actors & Politics
- Environmental GIS
- Environmental Internship
- Environmental Remote Sensing
- Geopolitics Of Natural Resource Disputes
- Globalisation And The Environment
- Health, Lifestyles And Cities
- Modelling Environmental Change At The Land Surface
- Monitoring Environmental Change
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Communication
- Risk Governance
- Risk Management
- River Processes & Management
- Social Change In Global Cities
- Southern Africa: The Political Ecology of Land and Agriculture
- Territorial And Boundary Dispute Resolution
- Tourism And Development
- Tourism And The Environment
- Understanding and Managing the Urban Atmosphere
- Understanding And Managing Urban Aquatic And Terrestrial Systems
- Urban Studies Internship
- Urbanisation In Sub-Saharan Africa: Livelihoods And Patterns Of Growth
- Water Resources And Water Policy
Required modules – MA only
- Practising Social Research
Required modules – MSc only
- Methods For Environmental Research