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GeographyIntermediate 2(C208 11)

Geography

Course outline

There are three mandatory Units. Opportunities are provided in the Course for candidates to integrate knowledge and understanding, and apply this in less familiar and more complex contexts using skills acquired in the Units.

The Units are:

DF3C 11 Geography: Physical Environments (Intermediate 2)

1 credit (40 hours)

Areas of study include glaciated uplands, upland limestone, coasts and associated conflict/management issues; the processes that create selected river features; and the location of given examples of these landscape types.

DF43 11 Geography: Human Environments (Intermediate 2)

1 credit (40 hours)

Areas of study include global population issues, population case studies and industrial location and change.

DF44 11 Geography: Environmental Interactions (Intermediate 2)

1 credit (40 hours)

Candidates will study examples of two types of interactions chosen from the following list:

Geographical methods and techniques

The following geographical methods and techniques should be covered, where appropriate, within the Units. The use of straightforward methods and techniques to extract and process information is part of the Course and Unit assessment. Such information should relate to:

Course assessment

To gain the award of the Course, the candidate must pass all three Units which make up the Course as well as being successful in the Course assessment. The candiate's grade is based on the Course assessment.

The Intermediate 2 Course assessment will be an externally set paper that  will last for 2 hours. The paper will have two sections, worth a total mark of 80:

Section A will contain one compulsory question on Geography: Physical Environments and one compulsory question on Geography: Human Environments. Each question will be worth 25 marks.

Section B will contain five questions, one on each Environmental Interaction. Candidates will answer two of these questions. Each question will be worth 15 marks.
 

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