Geography

Why study Geography at Dundee?

As a geographer at Dundee you will learn how to apply your knowledge in order to analyse and solve a wide range of environmental, social and regional problems. You will be taught by lecturers who received the highest possible scores from the National Student Survey 2010. We were ranked 1st in the UK for student satisfaction and 100% of our students were satisfied with the teaching on their course.

The geography degree course at Dundee is highly flexible. Depending on your interests and the combinations of subjects you want to take, you can study geography for an MA or for a BSc. In addition to a wide range of joint Honours degrees there are also specific degree pathways in geography and planning and, for those interested in political issues in a global context, geopolitics and international relations.

Field Trips

You will also have the opportunity to study geography in an international context. There are many opportunities to participate in field trips to international locations such as California, New York and Spain as well as expeditions to Iceland and the Italian Alps.

Nicola Saunders is a current Geography student. She says "The course is very interactive and the field trips are extremely useful as you can see physical and human aspects happening in the real world."

Study abroad

You can also spend between one semester and a whole academic year studying abroad either in Europe (on the Erasmus exchange programme or North America on our Transatlantic Student Exchange scheme.

Amy Ross is a geography student who blogged about the year she spent in Spain, at the Universidad de Granada (2010-2011).

Extracurricular activities

The opportunities for students to get to know each other and the staff through field excursions and other project work means that Geography has a well earned reputation for being one of the most friendly subjects to study.

The Geography and Environmental Science Society (GESS) provides a lively and informal focus for student social activities, while the Dundee branch of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society provides an excellent programme of talks about expeditions and journeys to exotic locations which many students attend.

In addition, many of our own students regularly organise their own expeditions to different parts of the world. In recent years several groups of students have successfully raised the money and gained sponsorship to travel to Iceland, where they have carried out field work for their dissertations.

David Barratt graduated in 2011. He describes the most enjoyable thing about his degree:
"The most enjoyable for me was my dissertation research in Italy ... For my research I investigated the hydrology beneath a glacier at the foot of Mont Blanc. Using a highly concentrated tracer material I was able to infer the structure of the inaccessible drainage pathways beneath the glacier."

• MA Geography
• MA Geography and Planning
• MA Geography and American Studies
• MA Geography and Business Economics with Marketing
• MA Geography and Environmental Science
• MA Geography and Environmental Sustainability
• MA Geography and European Studies
• MA Geography and History
• MA Geography and Politics
• MA Geography and Psychology

• MA Geography with French
• MA Geography with German
• MA Geography with Spanish

• MA Geopolitics

• BSc Geography
• BSc Geography and Environmental Science