The aims of the Geography Department are:

To understand the world around them and their place within it. To gain knowledge about diverse places, people, resources and natural and human environments;
To give students the ability to understand the impact of Geography on the people and places around them;
To explore and be accepting of people’s cultures and perceptions;
To develop a range of geographical skills that can be used in the subject and a wider context;
Understand how key human and physical features are formed, the impacts that they have immediately as well as over time;
To explore the impacts that humans have on the world around us and how we can change to become more sustainable.

To promote a sense of place and a knowledge and understanding of relative location, at a variety of scales
To develop an awareness of the characteristics and distribution of a selection of contrasting physical and human environments
To develop an understanding of processes affecting the development of both physical and human environments
To promote an understanding of the spatial effects of the ways in which people interact with each other and with their environment
To create an awareness of the significance of change in the earth's surface and the dynamic nature of patterns and relationships
To encourage an understanding of different communities and cultures within our own society and elsewhere in the world