Keele University Prospectus Undergraduate | 2016 | Page 123

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Key Information
Skills and careers

Geography involves a wider range of skills, methods and teaching
approaches than most subjects. Geography provides practical
and applied skills as well as an informed view of the relationship
between people and their physical and social environments.
In recent years, Keele geography graduates have successfully found
careers in a wide range of commercial and public sector activities,
and many have gone on to postgraduate studies.

Human Geography and Sociology

Sociology can provide a fascinating and highly effective
combination with Human Geography in the dual honours system
that is Keele’s speciality. Sociology is concerned with the groups,
structures and institutions that make up human society. It also
looks at the changing global, national and local contexts of society.
Our modern world is changing at an unprecedented rate; the skills
and knowledge of a Human Geography/Sociology combination
will provide valuable tools for dealing with change as well as an
excellent preparation for a wide range of career opportunities.

Human Geography and History

Human Geography and History represent an attractive, challenging
and logical combination of subjects to read at Keele. The links
between the two are many and obvious: no aspect of human
geography can be satisfactorily appreciated without an effective
understanding of its historical development. Similarly, all historical
processes take place in a spatial context and in human and/or
physical environments.

Good to know
For the last four consecutive years, in the National
Student Survey, Keele University’s Human and
Social Geography consistently recorded a very
high “overall satisfaction with the course” score
and in 2014 has achieved 93% student satisfaction
against a sector-wide average of 88%. In the
2013 Guardian University League Tables, Keele’s
Geography course was ranked 5th nationally.

www.keele.ac.uk/ugcourses

Course type

Single honours,
dual honours, major

Entry
requirements
BBB/ABC

(For exclusions and other
qualifications please see
the entry requirements
table on page 230 to 239)

Approximate
intake
25

Study abroad
Yes

binations
Popular comy and

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Human