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MA MSc Geography

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    MA/MSc One year FT, two years PT

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):

  • EITHER 7SSG5004 Dissertation in MA Geography OR 7SSG5000 Dissertation in MSc Geography (both modules 60 credits) (must Take and Pass)

Compulsory modules (20 credits):

  • EITHER 7SSG5002 Practising Social Research for MA Geography students OR 7SSG5110 Methods for Environmental Research for MSc Geography students (both modules 20 credits, T1)

Optional Modules

Optional modules in Geography (100−110 credits):

  • Any Level 7 (Masters) modules offered in the Geography Department.

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

 

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