This degree offers you the chance to strengthen your skills, knowledge and confidence before you advance to stage one of your honours degree.Choose a route which is ideal if you are embarking on a fresh career direction or exploring a new subject area.Specialise in the physical, environmental or human area of geography – or a mixture of them all – with our extensive range of optional modules.Start your studies at foundation year stage for a thorough grounding in the subject and achieve your full honours degree in four years.Gain an in-depth understanding of the processes that cause disasters as well as their impact on human health and livelihoods.<br><br>Bringing a new dimension to our portfolio, the BSc (Hons) Geography and Environmental Hazards with Foundation Year paves the way to many challenging and rewarding career opportunities worldwide. There are now a growing number of roles which involve planning for, mitigating and managing natural hazards as well as helping to reduce the impact of climate change, pollution and population pressure.<br><br>However, this degree also equips you with invaluable transferable skills and the vision and self-reliance that can be used across many areas of employment. By the time you graduate, you'll have developed a full range of professional skills, theoretical knowledge and practical experience to impress prospective employers from any organisation where environmental awareness and broad scientific knowledge are valued.<br><br>Our graduates have gone on to secure diverse roles in areas such as agronomy, environmental consulting, data analysis, water quality analysis, conservation, surveying, transport planning and teaching.