Field trips

Year 1

In year 1 a UK based residential field course, either to Abergavenny in Wales or Bovey Tracey in Dartmoor, is a core part of the student learning experience. The trip takes place early in the academic year so enables staff and students to get to know each other. This field course is designed to get you to work in small teams, to develop your research skills and learn more about the environment you are staying in.

Year 2

In year 2 student take part in a residential overseas field trip. The focus prior to and during the field course is upon the development and practice of research skills. This prepares student for the final year Dissertation module, an individual piece of primary research completed in collaboration with a specialist member of staff. Currently our 2nd year students go to

Brittany (BSc Geography and Environmental Management)
Alicante (Tourism courses)
Mallorca (BA Geography)

Year 3

In the final year students can opt to take part in an Advanced Geographical Expedition, a two week entirely field-based module to locations such as Iceland, China and Kenya.

In addition to residential field trips students will have the opportunity to take part in a number of day fieldtrips which are associated with the modules that they are studying. These fieldtrips reinforce module content and usually make up part of the assessment for the modules. Most students will also complete some primary data collection in the field for their final year Dissertation project.