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Programme Code: L770BA/GAA Duration: 3- or 4- year combined honours degree

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Entry Requirements

  • A Levels: ABB
  • IB: 34 (5/5/5)
  • BTEC: DDM
  • Scottish Highers: AABBB
  • Scottish Advanced Highers: ABB
  • Irish LC: 320 points from 5 Higher level subjects at grade C1 or above
  • Advanced Placement: 4 4 4 (Two semesters - UCAS Group A) plus US HSGD with GPA 3.0
  • Euro Bacc: 80%
  • French Bacc: 14/20
  • German Abitur: 2.0
  • Italy DES: 80/100
  • Austria Mat: 2.0
  • Polish Mat: 75%

Subjects Preferred: No

Interview Policy: Candidates with 'non standard' qualifications may be invited.

The SOAS Geography department moved to King's College, London (KCL) August 2001, creating the largest group of academic geographers in the UK specialising in developing countries. Based in KCL, the new department has an international reputation for research and teaching in a broad range of fields and regional contexts. Its teaching programme has been rated "Excellent" in the government assessment of all British universities. In a joint honours geography degree, KCL provides the geography element, while SOAS offers a second subject with an explicitly African and/or Asian focus. Applications for the single subject degree should be made to KCL alone. Combined BA Geography honours degrees are available with all SOAS subjects (duration 3 or 4 years), with the geography component drawn from course units within the single honours degree. Applications for combined honours degrees should be made to SOAS alone.

Combinations

May be combined with
  • African Studies TL57 BA/GEAF
  • Arabic LT76 BA/GEA
  • Bengali TL47 BA/BeG
  • Burmese LT7H BA/GEBU
  • Chinese LT71 BA/GECH
  • Development Studies LL97 BA/GEDVS
  • Economics LL17 BA/GEEC
  • Hausa LTR5 BA/HAGE
  • Hebrew LQ74 BA/HEGE
  • Hindi TLH7 BA/HNGEHistory LV71 BA/HE
  • History of Art/Archaeology LV73 BA/GHAA
  • Indonesian TLJ7 BA/IGE
  • Korean LT7L BA/KOGE
  • Law LM71 BA/LWGE
  • Linguistics LQ73 BA/GELG
  • Music LW73 BA/MSGE
  • Nepali LTR3 BA/NEGE
  • Persian LTT6 BA/PGE
  • Politics LL72 BA/POLGE
  • Social Anthropology LL76 BA/SAGE
  • South Asian Studies TLHR BA/SASGE
  • South East Asian Studies TLJR BA/GESEA
  • Study of Religions LV76 BA/SRGE
  • Swahili LTT5 BA/SWGE
  • Thai LTT3 BA/THGE
  • Turkish LTR6 BA/TUGE
  • Vietnamese LTTJ BA/VGE

Structure

The joint honours course cover a broad range of thematic fields as well as allowing students to explore issues in regional contexts. The department has a well established reputation for successful student expeditions and in recent years, expeditions have been organised to Borneo, Colombia, Ecuador, Kenya, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe. An optional second year field course provides practical experience of research in Asian and African environments. Recent courses have been held in Kerala, India.

Degree Structure

3-year combined honours degree: Geography can be combined with African Studies, Bengali, Development Studies, Economics, Georgian, Gujarati, History, History of Art/Archaeology, Law, Linguistics, Music, Persian, Politics, Sinhalese, Social Anthropology, South Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, Study of Religions, Turkish
4-year combined honours degree: Geography can be combined with Amharic, Chinese, Hausa, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Swahili. This includes a year of language study abroad.
3- or 4- year combined honours degree: Geography can be combined with Burmese, Hindi, Indonesian, Nepali, Thai, Vietnamese. The 4 year degree involves a year of language study abroad.

Teaching & Learning

Year abroad

Students combining geography with a language in a 4-year degree spend a year abroad.

Graduate Destinations

Career Opportunities
According to a recent survey, Geography graduates are amongst those much in demand. Careers followed by our graduates have been wide-ranging and include merchant banking, journalism and broadcasting as well as work in a variety of non-governmental organisations in Asia and Africa as well as in Europe.

Student Profile
Liv Hernaes - BA Geography & Development Studies
Before coming to SOAS I studied Sociology at the University of Oslo and went travelling to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. I chose SOAS because of its good reputation and because it would give me a possibility to choose courses not available to me in Norway. To study in such a culturally diverse environment as SOAS makes the experience complete. Viewing education as a struggle for knowledge, SOAS has provided me with a critical awareness and challenged me intellectually as well as socially.

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