Geography

Course Description

Geography is so much more than knowing where the different countries are located on the globe, how rivers form oxbow lakes or the highest mountain in Europe. Geographers concern themselves with some of the modern world’s greatest challenges.

• How to feed the growing population
• Making sure that everyone has access to clean and affordable water
• Stopping climate change
• Managing pollution of our environment
• Reversing the destruction of our natural systems

By taking an A Level in geography you will understand the nature of the world and how this impacts on its human inhabitants. The complex interactions between physical processes and human activities will give you an unparalleled insight into how the world works. Covering topics varying from geo-physics to sociology taking in politics and economics on the way there are few other subjects that even attempt to understand such a broad range of elements.

At ASFC we go well beyond the specification, following our natural inclination to discover more. With much student led research and University style lectures we probe the most contentious aspects of this fascinating A level.

Modules include Physical and Human Geography and Geographical Skills.

Physical and Human Geography

Physical Geography topic areas include: Plate Tectonics, Coastal Processes, Water Cycle and Water Shortage and the Carbon Cycle and the Energy Question.

Human Geography Topics include: Super Powers, Globalisation, Changing Places (Regenerating Places) and Human Health and Intervention.

Geographical Skills

Within this unit you will develop the use and application of a variety of geographical skills. These should broaden and deepen existing knowledge of skills. The geographer must be at ease with statistical analysis, field sketches, essay writing and verbal communication. All these, and more, are taught in detail.

Our focus is upon the examination and the techniques that support success. Whilst the course will provide endless fascination, we always have the target of top grades as our focus.

With an unparalleled success rate of Oxbridge entries many students start studying geography as one of their three subjects and soon decide to follow the subject well beyond A level.