Undergraduate Study

Geography

Undergraduate

Geography

Geography provides a diverse interdisciplinary degree that bridges the natural and social sciences. It provides enhancement of a broad range of transferable skills, and an education encompassing pressing issues at a range of scales, from local up to global.

The degree spans such key topics as:

  • climate and environmental change
  • inequality
  • social, economic and cultural transformation
  • biodiversity loss
  • geomorphological processes in drylands
  • geographical data science
  • post-colonialism
  • globalisation.

The Oxford Geography degree provides a holistic view of the workings of physical and human environments, the ways in which humans are transforming the world and the implications for human societies.  

Students are introduced to the full range of geographical topics in the foundational courses, which they can then follow up in more detail in the optional papers, shaping their programme to match their developing interests.

There is emphasis placed on interdisciplinary approaches within the course, with opportunities to explore the intersections between geography and other disciplines from the humanities, social and natural sciences.