Edexcel A-level Geography

What is included

What this course covers

• Area of study 1: Dynamic Landscapes

  • Topic 1 — Tectonic Processes and Hazards
  • Topic 2A – Landscape Systems, Processes and Change: Glaciated Landscapes and Change
  • Topic 2B – Landscape Systems, Processes and Change: Coastal Landscapes and Change

• Area of study 2: Dynamic Places

  • Topic 3 — Globalisation
  • Topic 4A – Shaping Places: Regenerating Places
  • Topic 4B – Shaping Places: Diverse Places

• Area of study 3: Physical Systems and Sustainability

  • Topic 5 — The Water Cycle and Water Insecurity
  • Topic 6 — The Carbon Cycle and Energy Security

• Area of study 4: Human Systems and Geopolitics

  • Topic 7 — Superpowers
  • Topic 8A – Global Development and Connections: Health, Human Rights and Intervention
  • Topic 8B – Global Development and Connections: Migration, Identity and Sovereignty

• Non-examination assessment: Independent Investigation

  • The independent investigation: a question, fieldwork data, own research and the 3000–4000 word report
  • Fieldwork skills 1-2 - Researching the literature and its context, and defining the research questions
  • Fieldwork skills 3-4 - Field methodologies: observing, recording, sampling and justifying the practical approaches
  • Fieldwork skills 5-6 - Analysing and representing field data, including GIS, and critically examining its accuracy
  • Fieldwork skills 7-8 - Writing up field results, applying theory, evaluating and reflecting on the investigation

• Geographical skills

  • Appendix 1.1 - Qualitative data: interviews, textual and visual sources, coding and sampling, and ethical implications
  • Appendix 1.2 - Quantitative data: geospatial technologies, geo-located data, and geographical information up to GIS
  • Appendix 1.2d - Statistics: central tendency and dispersion, t-tests, Spearman's rank, chi-squared, correlation and sampling

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