This combined honors, Geography course at Keele allows you to focus specifically on your preferred area of human geography. Our staff’s diverse research interests and creative methods reflect modern human geography that can develop your skills to address contemporary societal issues such as climate change, sustainability, health, and migration from political, economic, social, and cultural perspectives. You will develop interdisciplinary perspectives, problem-solving skills, and the ability to research, evaluate and synthesize information from diverse sources. What you learn here will equip you for future employment and for a lifelong appreciation of the world around you.
Politics at Keele seeks to understand society and the events and forces which shape it, engaging with questions of power, justice, conflict, legitimacy, accountability, and governance. You will explore a range of topics which may include why citizens are increasingly disillusioned with politics; what democracy is; when and how it’s legitimate to protest; and the effects of different models of government. You can tailor your studies to your interests, whether theoretical, historical, or oriented to specific issues.
Year 1
Compulsory Modules:
- Why Politics Matters
- Modern Democracies
- Academic Professional and Fieldwork Skills
- Human Geography in a Changing World
- People and the Environment
Optional Modules:
- Introduction to International Relations
- The Changing World: A History of International Relations since 1945
- The politics of sustainability
- Debates in American Politics
- Justice, Authority, and Power
- Introduction to Global Political Economy (GPE)
- Securing Global Order
- Climate Change: The Scientific and Societal Context
- Nature, Conservation and Society
Year 2
- Researching People and Place
- Space and Society
Optional Modules:
- Environmental Politics and Policy
- U.S Government and Politics
- British Government and Politics
- Russian Politics and Society
- Foreign Policy
- The International Politics of the Middle East: A Century of War and Diplomacy
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF EURASIA: Challenges of Globalisation and Geopolitics
- The Practice of Politics
- Freedom and Equality
- Why Policy Changes
- Power to the People: understanding the origins of Western politics
- The Politics of the European Union
- International Organisation: Mitigating Anarchy
- Fieldwork
- Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- Populations, Publics, Policies: Geographical Perspectives in Human Geography
Year 3
- Glaciers and Glacial Geomorphology
- Global Environmental Change
- Applied GIS
- Postcolonialism in South Asia
- Animals and Society
- Geography Double Dissertation – ISP
- Geography (Single) Dissertation – ISP
- Water Resources
- Coastal Environments
- Inspirational Landscapes
- Rural Geographies
- Geographies of Health and Illness
- The Missing Dimension: Conspiracies, Spying and International Relations
- Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
- The U.S. Presidency
- Policing International Order
- The Extreme Right in Western Europe
- Modern Russia
- Politics of Development
- Dissertation in Politics and IR – ISP
- Protest and social movements
- Contemporary Democratic Theory
- Israel/Palestine: Key Debates and Issues
- Britain and war since 1945: War, Cold War and society
- Parliamentary Studies
- The Rise of China
- Employability Training: Engaging with the Workplace
- Advanced Fieldwork in Geography
- Development Studies
Employability
As a geographer, you’ll develop a wide range of transferable and subject-specific skills that are highly valued by employers and are relevant to a broad range of careers including those in transport and planning and the environmental and retail sectors. They also provide ideal training for postgraduate study and research.
Politics at Keele will enable you to think critically, take a balanced approach, and present your ideas persuasively. You might work as a politician’s assistant, a researcher for an MP or think-tank, or a public-affairs consultant. You could work in the civil service, in local government, or for a campaigning or lobbying group. A number of Keele politics graduates have become MPs themselves.
Previous employers
- BBC
- Cancer Research UK
- Civil Service
- Environmental Agency
- Financial Times
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Greenpeace
- Higher Education Providers
- International Organisations
- JP Morgan
