How the specification benefits our students
- Builds naturally on GCSE knowledge, with minimal repetition of content
- Develops fieldwork skills
- Increased choice of topics, eg between Fieldwork investigation or Issue Evaluation papers
- Study of geographical issues and impacts
- Possibility to develop a specialist interest within geography
- Seamless progress to higher education and employment
How AS students progress
Unit 1: Physical and Human Geography
- Study core physical and human geography, which is Rivers and Human Population.
- Our two optional modules are Energy and Coasts.
- Students go on a four day residential trip to the Dorset Coast.
- Support their learning of ideas through studies of specific case studies.
- Develop and use a variety of geographical skills with a greater degree of independence, to broaden and deepen existing knowledge around the topics of Rivers and Population.
What A2 students can choose to study
Unit 3: Contemporary Geographical Issues
- A combination of human and physical geography topics. The topics currently studied are World Cities, Development and Globalisation, Weather and Climate and Tectonic Hazards.
- Preparatory investigative work in the field to produce a fieldwork investigation
- Students undertake a field study on Birmingham's urban heat island effect.
Any further information can be found in the full specification which can be found on the following link http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/gce/pdf/AQA-2030-W-SP-10.PDF
