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Geography and one other subject to degree level as part of a Single Major, Double Major, Major/Minor or as as Minor.
1st year
- Choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography from group 1 and/or 6 plus up to 3 other subjects including Critical Skills from the 4 or 5 groups available (maximum 1 subject per group). If choosing Geography in Group 6, the only subject you may choose in Group 1 is Geography (this
is due to timetabling of subjects in 2nd year)
The two separate 1st year 15 credit Geography topics are:
- Living Landscapes – in Group 1 (15 credits) introduces you to the diversity of human and physical landscapes across the modern world. Landscapes are both ‘vast and past’, shaped by physical and human geographical processes, which are often interdependent. Living Landscapes will allow you to investigate world-forming processes examining how humans across the world are part of, and also create, unique landscapes that generate issues including hazard prevention, poverty and resource depletion.
- Global Environments – in Group 6 (15 credits) introduces students to the issues involved in modern global development within a highly modified, rapidly changing natural environment. Modern environments are shaped by physical forces and societal impacts formed by a range of geographical processes, which interact to create unique local management issues. If choosing Global Environments (from Group 6) you cannot choose another subject in Group 1, other than Geography - Living Landscapes.
2nd & 3rd year
- Geography
- Plus continue with 1 of your 1st year subjects. If taking Geography as a Single Major option (at least 50 credits of Geography from 2nd year), students must achieve at least 60% in their 1st year Geography exams (and pass their other subjects).
- Optional 10 credit Electives in 2nd year
Students may apply to study overseas after 2nd year (on Erasmus or Study Abroad) and graduate with a BA (International) after 4 years. See the International Studies website for details.
In your 3rd year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University. Duration: 3 years (BA) or 4 years (BA International)
Disclaimer
The modules below are indicative of the content associated with this course of study. The modules are subject to change as the curriculum is revised and reviewed annually. Please check periodically for updates.
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Year 1
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
Take either 15 or 30 credits of Geography. If choosing Global Environments (from Group 6) you cannot choose another subject in Group 1, other than Geography - Living Landscapes.
Please note: Global Environments will be available in Group 6 only. This means that if you select GY161 and GY162 you may not take any other Group 6 subjects.
GY1V30
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 30
Not compulsory:
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
Take either 15 or 30 credits of Geography. If choosing Global Environments (from Group 6) you cannot choose another subject in Group 1, other than Geography - Living Landscapes.
Please note: Global Environments will be available in Group 6 only. This means that if you select GY161 and GY162 you may not take any other Group 6 subjects.
GY1V30
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 30
Not compulsory:
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Year 2
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
GY2DM
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 30
Not compulsory:
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
GY2MJ
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 40
Not compulsory:
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
GY2SM
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 60
Not compulsory:
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
GY2MI
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 20
Not compulsory:
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Year 3
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
Registration notes re. GY399A (semester 1) and GY399B (semester 2) Students who are interested in registering for GY399A or GY399B need to contact the module coordinator to discuss this, and get approval for this, a few months in advance of the start of the respective semester. Students who are approved to register for either module will not initially be able to register for them when online registrations commence in early September. However, their registration details will be sorted out by the Department during the first few weeks of semester 1 for GY399A and semester 2 for GY399B. It is not permitted to register for GY399A and GY399B.
GY3DM
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 30
Not compulsory:
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
Registration notes re. GY399A (semester 1) and GY399B (semester 2) Students who are interested in registering for GY399A or GY399B need to contact the module coordinator to discuss this, and get approval for this, a few months in advance of the start of the respective semester. Students who are approved to register for either module will not initially be able to register for them when online registrations commence in early September. However, their registration details will be sorted out by the Department during the first few weeks of semester 1 for GY399A and semester 2 for GY399B. It is not permitted to register for GY399A and GY399B.
GY3MJ
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 40
Not compulsory:
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
Registration notes re. GY399A (semester 1) and GY399B (semester 2) Students who are interested in registering for GY399A or GY399B need to contact the module coordinator to discuss this, and get approval for this, a few months in advance of the start of the respective semester. Students who are approved to register for either module will not initially be able to register for them when online registrations commence in early September. However, their registration details will be sorted out by the Department during the first few weeks of semester 1 for GY399A and semester 2 for GY399B. It is not permitted to register for GY399A and GY399B.
GY3SM
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 60
Not compulsory:
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We explore environment, place, and space. We ask questions such as: How much climate change are we causing and how quickly? What sorts of attachments to home do people form and what happens when these are disrupted by migration? How is Ireland, and its regions, affected by economic globalisation? - Through Geography, you will get to the heart of contemporary issues such as climate and environmental change, geopolitics, the transformation of modern societies and cultures, global health and social inequality, and how cities are evolving.
- Geography education at Maynooth includes field trips, both in Ireland and overseas.
- Students can choose 15 or 30 credits of Geography in first year and progress into a Single Major degree from second year.
- In your third year, you may opt for an industry placement module (subject to availability) to experience what it’s like to work with an organisation outside the University.
- You will learn to think critically, analysing how and why our world changes. Geography paves the way for active citizenship and lifelong learning.
- Our students develop a special way of thinking ‘spatially’, with space and place at the forefront of their analysis, and learn a range of skills which appeal to employers.
- Our students are taught by international experts in the fields of environment, place and space.
GY3MI
- GEOGRAPHY
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Credits: 20
Not compulsory:
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