The department provides a modern, stimulating and supportive environment in which to study contemporary geography. At the interface of the human and the physical environments, geography is an integrative discipline that fosters a broad perspective on the problems of today’s world and equips students with a variety of transferable and employable skills. We offer four single subject degrees. Our degree programmes offer considerable module flexibility, allowing students to either specialise in particular areas of geography that interest them (physical or human geography), or to focus on topics at the science-social science interface. If you start any of our standard single subject Geography degrees (L700 and F800) you may switch between these courses at any time prior to the beginning of the Second Year. At Leicester we consider field experience essential to a geographical education. In recent years human geography students have had a choice of travelling to Kenya, New York, and the south-west USA, while physical geographers have visited the Lake District, the Mojave Desert in California, the Amazon Rainforest and southern Spain. The international emphasis on fieldwork reflects the locations of staff members’ current research, which include the USA, Russia, Mongolia, Colombia and various African countries. Fieldwork is also an integral part of your dissertation project in the Third Year.

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