Overview
Get ready with a foundation year and learn the foundational skills and knowledge to complete a full Honours degree. You'll be able to embark on this qualification without meeting the level 3 entry requirements, giving you the opportunity to study at degree level through this four year course.
Examine the earth’s changing landscapes with a Geography degree from Canterbury Christ Church University. If you're passionate about making a difference in this current climate, this course offers hands-on experience, critical thinking, and deep insight into both human and physical geography.
Taught by passionate experts and guided by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, you’ll investigate pressing global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, urbanisation, and inequality.
What you’ll learn
- Explore climate change, sustainability, and the human-environment relationship in a global context.
- Investigate physical landscapes, ecosystems, and weather systems through immersive fieldwork.
- Develop mapping and data analysis skills using GIS and digital tools.
- Take a multidisciplinary approach as you learn about biological, chemical, physical environmental processes.
- Explore new landscapes and cultures through international field trips.
What’s more, you’ll develop the skills to collect, manipulate, analyse, map, visualise, and communicate geographical phenomena as you independently research your own topics.
With a strong focus on fieldwork, lab skills, and real-world problem solving, you’ll graduate ready for careers such as environmental consultancy, planning, policy, or further study.
100%
of our Geography students were in work or further study 15 months after finishing their course.
Graduate Outcomes Survey 2023Why study Geography at CCCU?
There's an excellent balance between human and physical geography, and the field trips were a particular highlight. They allowed me to learn and apply my knowledge in practical settings, setting me up for employment.Bobby, Geography student
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64
Total Points required
- Select your qualification
- Select your grade
- Add it and repeat
Qualifications:
Grades
Points required: 64
Accepted qualifications
We accept a wide range of general qualifications that attract UCAS Tariff points either on their own or in combination with others. Below are some common examples.
| Qualification | Grades |
|---|---|
| A Levels | DDE |
| BTEC | MPP |
| Access | Pass 45 Credits |
| International Baccalaureate | TBC |
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Module information
Core/optional modules
How you’ll learn
In your Foundation Year, you will be introduced to higher education with a range of supportive modules that prepare you for study in higher education and familiarise you with the core knowledge and skills of your chosen subject.
From Level 4 onward, each module features a mixture of practical sessions (in the field or laboratory), lectures, workshops and seminars. The emphasis is always on practical and applied skills development, so on a typical module we will spend more than half of our time with you in practical sessions, often two thirds of the module contact time.
This is complemented by additional structured and guided learning resources we provide and curate for you. In addition, you will have time allocated for independent learning.
Face-to-face teaching hours per week may vary but will typically be approximately 10 - 16 hours. Some modules include intensive weeks where you will have up to 24-30 contact hours in a week.
Modules feature a variety of independent learning materials that we curate and structure for you. This may include textbook chapters to read, videos to watch or research papers to review in preparation for or following on from a face-to-face session.
You might engage in online discussions, post comments or otherwise interact with fellow students or academics as well. Some of the independent learning can be accompanied by short quizzes or revision aides to help you remember the key content you have covered.
As a full-time student, you should expect a workload similar to a full-time job during the weeks of the semester (each of your two semesters is 15 weeks long). You will be studying 60 credits worth of modules each semester, which corresponds to an overall workload of 600 hours per semester.
Most of this time is set aside for your independent learning, however, you can use it flexibly around your other commitments, such as work or caring responsibilities. Your personal academic tutor and the course team will always be there to support you in engaging with your studies and meeting the learning requirements of the course.
Face-to-face sessions are typically led by academics – our focus is teaching and supporting you.
Occasionally, industry experts or guest lecturers may provide specialist sessions and share their expertise with you. In some of our laboratory and field practicals or IT workshops, you will be supported by PhD students alongside the academic leading the session.
The academics teaching you will have higher education teaching qualifications (such as the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, PGCAP) and may also be fellows of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) or members of professional bodies and academic organisations.
How you’ll be assessed
We understand that different students have different strengths and ways of learning. This is why you will be assessed in a range of ways during your degree.
In your first two years of study, you will mainly be assessed by coursework (e.g. lab or field reports) and by timed online questionnaires. In your second and third year, your coursework assessment may include poster presentations, scientific reports, portfolios and others.
Some of your modules will also include an exam, but no module will be assessed exclusively by an exam.
In your final year, you will complete a dissertation module that includes a thesis assessment in semester 2 and a presentation where you can reflect on your achievements and journey as a student.
Your future career
Previous graduates from Geography and Environmental Science courses at Canterbury Christ Church University have gone on to work as:
- Team Leader (Elmhurst Energy)
- Senior Planning Officer (Hertsmere Borough Council)
- Community Outreach Program and Education Manager (Angari Foundation)
- Graduate Consultant (Mott MacDonald).
Some of our graduates go on to complete MScs or PhDs or purse postgraduate courses or train as teachers.
University at CCCU was once in a lifetime experience, forging memories and friends for life, where learning and using Geographic Information Systems was essential in obtaining a career in the civil service and landscape industry.AshleyGIS Landscape Technician, Kent County Council
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Fees
Tuition Fees for 2026/27 have not yet been finalised. These course web pages will be updated with Tuition Fee information once they have been agreed.
- Read advice about funding your degree
- See information about the financial support available for undergraduate studies
- If you would like information about paying your fees, please contact accounts.receivable@canterbury.ac.uk
- For specific fee queries, please contact fees@canterbury.ac.uk
Industry links
Your course will feature guest speakers with specialisms in geography and environmental sciences that will enhance your learning. The Industry, Careers and Enterprise module you will take at Level 5 will allow you to tackle a client brief from one of our partners where you apply the skills you have learned to a real-life problem.
We also host a careers fair specifically for students on our courses where you can talk to employers, find out about the exciting careers they offer and get advice on how to progress into those careers with the skills you have learned.
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Duration:
4 yearsUCAS code:
L701Location(s):
Canterbury*We are advertising this course as ‘subject to approval.’ When we add new courses or update existing courses, we advertise the course as ‘subject to approval’. We do this to let you know the University still needs to agree to run the course. It is rare for a course not to gain approval, but it is not guaranteed. There may be changes to course and module titles, content and assessment, but we will tell you about these if there is a change. You can still apply to study a course subject to approval. We have prepared some questions and answers to tell you more.