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Geography at University
Making the Most of Your Geography Degree and Courses

First Edition


November 2002 | 204 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
`This is an essential easy-to-use guide to geography. It is unique in providing not only passive advice but also offering activity based guidance to both potential and current geography undergraduates. Geography at University is wide ranging in its approach offering assistance to all; from those who need help with their dissertation to those writing their curriculum vitae. It is an all encompassing text which offers a fresh and original outlook on geography at degree level' - Lorraine Craig, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)

Geography at University will show students how to do better at university when studying for their degree in geography.

It explains how university - and geography at university - differs from the subject at school. At university, students are taught new topics in different ways and will be tested on different abilities - the ability to understand, to explain and to apply knowledge; rather than just on the knowledge itself. This means that students need to learn the subject in new ways: Geography at University shows them exactly how to do that.

Being at university is a phase between school and career, this book will show students how university geography builds on school geography and gives them skills employers will be looking for when appointing graduates.

Geography at University reviews each of the main methods by which students are taught geography - lectures, tutorial, fieldwork, practicals and projects - and explains what tutors will be trying to do during these sessions so that students can gain the most from teaching.

Geography at University explains what tutors are looking for when assessing students works through their essays, examinations, oral presentations anddissertations.

There is more to getting a degree than just studying geography. There is much that students can do through a gap year or taking paid or voluntary work to give them an edge when applying for jobs after graduation, and Geography at University explains how they can make the most of these opportunities as well.

 
Introduction
 
What Geography in Higher Education is About
 
Geography, Geographers and Your Future Career
 
Understanding the Learning and Teaching of Geography
 
Understanding How You Will Be Assessed in Geography
 
Other Useful Activities for Getting a Job
 
Where Have We Got To?

`This is an essential easy-to-use guide to geography. It is unique in providing not only passive advice but also offering activity based guidance to both potential and current geography undergraduates. Geography at University is wide ranging in its approach offering assistance to all; from those who need help with their dissertation to those writing their curriculum vitae. It is an all encompassing text which offers a fresh and original outlook on geography at degree level' - Lorraine Craig, Royal Geographical Society


This book came to me as a relief to recurrent problems of how to get the best feedback from students after several weeks of laborious teaching. I think I should be expecting great result as soon as my students get information from this book.

Dr Olabisi Michael Olapoju
Geography, Obafemi Awolowo University
January 3, 2019

A really useful guidebook that every fresher should own. It has it all, from what Geography is to how to use your degree to get a job. I'm sure this is a key text on all univeristy reading lists.

Dr Lynda Yorke
Geography and Regional Studies, Bangor University
May 21, 2013

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