GCSE GEOGRAPHY

Geography is about the future and encourages flexible thinking.

If you love Geography, why not choose it?

Get to know the physical and human world through fieldwork.

Make wise decisions that balance the environment, economic and social concerns in the context of sustainable development.

It fosters transferable skills which employers look for.

Nationally, Geography has one of the best graduate employment records in the country! Geography graduates are among the most employable. They possess the skills that employers look for. In part this is because Geography brings together all other subjects. To study geography will give you an oversight that no other subject can give. It therefore combines well with any GCSE subject. Career destinations for Geography graduates...
management and administration

10%
11% 12% 42%

further training, including PGCE for teaching joined the financial sector

25%

joined the retail sector

joined other professions, including the media

Source: AGCAS

-PGCE (teaching qualification). -MSc (e.g. environmental assessment, land management, pollution and environmental control, information systems engineering, rural resource management).

- MA (e.g. cultural geography, society space, international business, town planning).

- PhD (e.g. glaciology, geography of finance, quaternary environmental change, geography of health care).

Geography B covers four themes of Geography: Rivers and coasts Population and settlement Natural hazards Economic development

ASSESSMENT:
The course is assessed in the following ways: 50% Terminal Examination June Year 11 25% Geographical Enquiry (Controlled Assessment) July Year 10 / Sept Year 11 25% Decision Making Enquiry June Year 11

POSSIBLE FIELDWORK INVESTIGATION

 How effective is the management of a stretch of coastline?

 Should new housing be built in your local area?

 How is industry changing in your local area?

 How will the characteristic features of a stream/river change in a downstream direction?

EXAMPLES OF GEOGRAPHICAL INVESTIGATION

 Is HIV the biggest threat to development of LEDCs?

 How and why does the incidence of heart disease vary across the UK?

 Why is the price of the banana in your lunch a complicated issue?

 Did the commonwealth games help Manchester develop?

 Why is the price of jeans a complicated issue?

 Why are plans for the development of a wind farm in the UK a controversial issue?

 Who uses heroin and what are its impacts?

 What is the effect of tourism on the Great Barrier Reef?

WHY GEOGRAPHY?
An ideal foundation for learners who want to pursue Geography at A
Level or as a career. Learners are prepared with real skills, such as, map reading and the use of new technologies, like GIS, enquiry and analysis through fieldwork and research to assist geographical investigation. The controlled assessment topic changes annually, providing up to date, fresh and motivating content.

"As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However, while working at the customs office, I thought deeply about the matter and concluded it was far too difficult a subject. I then turned to Physics as a substitute." Albert Einstein