Dynamic Landscapes

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• analyse a range of different data, and to undertake basic map and numerical work
• Analyse and problem solve
• undertake specific tests of map work and numeracy
• Analyse and understand data in physical geography, using laboratory and computer techniques
• Utilise the concept of spatial variation to demonstrate knowledge and understanding
• Conceptualise patterns and interactions at a range of spatial scales
• Abstract and synthesize information
• Taking responsibility for their own learning
• Demonstrate command of the methods of geographical analysis and interpretation

Over the last few decades, and particularly since the mid-1960s, the study of geomorphological processes has become increasingly important. Geomorphologists have wanted to understand how particular landforms and landscapes were created, and engineers and environmental managers have needed to understand geomorphological processes in order to better manage the environment. Most recently, geomorphologists have been concerned with how past and future environmental changes affect landforms and landscapes. Landforms and, at the larger scale, landscapes, are fashioned by many processes operating on different materials: they also reflect the history of processes operating over days to millions of years. The module provides an introduction to these geomorphological processes, focusing on aeolian, coastal, fluvial, glacial and periglacial environments, with the aim of understanding the nature and causes of changes in landform and landscape. The module will also address the topic of how life on earth helps to shape the physical landscape, and vice versa, with the most obvious example being the influence of human activity on our planet.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and assignments, alongside student-led reading and reflection

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External