Geography

Currently, students study the following core modules (all are 15 credits unless otherwise indicated). If there are option modules available the current choices are also shown. King's reviews its optional modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates, or contact the School/Department for further advice. Students must take and pass 120 credits each year. All compulsory modules and core modules must be taken and passed.

Students on the BA programme may specialise in pathways in Development Geography; Society, Environment and Geography; or Human Geography.

Students study four core modules, listed below.

Geography Tutorials: Critical Thinking and Techniques (30 credits)
Geography Concepts, Skills & Methods I (30 credits)
Geography, Society & Development (30 credits)
The Changing Natural Environment (30 credits)

Students should take the modules outlined plus three (15 credit) options as listed below.

Methods in Human Geography (15 credits)
Fieldwork in Human Geography (15 credits)
Geography Concepts, Skills & Methods II (30 credits)

Plus at least one 15 credit thematic module from these streams:
Environmental Geography
Human Geography
Development Geography

Please note that not all options run each year.

Cities: Explorations in Urban Geography
Development Geographies: Livelihood & Policy Contexts
Ecological & Cultural Biogeography
Economic & Social Change in Post-war Europe
Environmental Remote Sensing
Earth Surface Processes
Climatic Variability, Change & Society
Historical Geographies of Urbanism
Natural Hazards
Territoriality, State & Nation
Urban & Social Inequalities
Water & Development


Up to 30 credits can also be taken from outside the department, subject to approval from the Chair of Teaching.

Students should take the dissertation, one thematic module and five (15 credit) options as listed below.

Independent Geographical Study (dissertation) (30 credits)




Please note that not all options run each year.

Advanced Issues in Natural & Environmental Hazards
Cultural Landscapes- North American Style
Desert Environments
Directed Readings in Geography
Discovering Order in Geography
Economic & Social Change in Southern Africa
Economy, Society & Politics in 19th-century London
Environmental Risk, Governance & Society
Environmental Remote Sensing II
Gendered Geographies of Development & Globalisation
Global Cities
Japanese Environments
Landscape Ecology
New Geographies of Economic Development in the Global South
Political Economy of Hazardscapes
Social Theory & the Environment
Third World Political Ecology
Tropical Forests in a Changing Environment
Urban Climatology
Urban Japan

Up to 30 credits can also be taken from outside the department subject to approval from the Chair of Teaching.