Postgraduate Modules

A list of postgraduate modules offered by the UCL Department of Geography in 2024/25

Compulsory Modules

Compulsory modules are usually only available to Geography students enrolled on Geography MSc programmes, unless otherwise indicated in the module catalogue.

Course code	Course
GEOG0040	Principles and Practice of Remote Sensing
GEOG0044 ~	Mitigation and Adaptation to Environmental Change
GEOG0073 ~	Environmental Knowledges
GEOG0082 ~	Social Science Research Methods
GEOG0084 ~	Geopolitics
GEOG0085	Environment, Politics and Practice
GEOG0093 ~	Conservation and Environmental Management
GEOG0106 ~	Environmental Data Acquisition and Analysis
GEOG0108 ~	Scientific Basis for Freshwater and Coastal Conservation
GEOG0109 *~	Models in Environmental Science
GEOG0110	Analytical and Numerical Methods
GEOG0111 *~	Scientific Computing
GEOG0114 *~	Principles of Spatial Analysis
GEOG0115 *~	Introduction to Data Science
GEOG0118 *~	Climate Dynamics
GEOG0120 *~	Past Climates
GEOG0125	Advanced Topics in Social Data Science
GEOG0127 ~	Approaches to Global Migration
GEOG0128	Issues in Global Migration
GEOG0136 *~	City, Space and Power
GEOG0137 *~	Urban Imaginations
GEOG0140	Urban Practices
GEOG0159	Tropical Futures
GEOG0163 *~	Data, Politics and Society
GEOG0173 *~	Aquatic Systems and Monitoring with Fieldclass

Optional Modules

Course code	Course
GEOG0034	Coastal Geohazards
GEOG0035	Environmental GIS
GEOG0067	Surface Water Modelling
GEOG0078	Geographies of Material Culture
GEOG0083	Politics of Climate Change
GEOG0087	Precarious Urban Environments
GEOG0096	Lakes
GEOG0100	Postcolonial Cultural Geographies
GEOG0101	Ocean Circulation and Climate Change
GEOG0107	Aquatic Macrophytes
GEOG0112	Climate Change Impacts to Hydro-Ecological Systems
GEOG0113	Terrest Carbon: Modelling and Monitoring
GEOG0121	Climate Modelling
GEOG0122	Biological Indicators of Environmental Change
GEOG0123	Climate Proxies
GEOG0129	Gender, Generation and Forced Migration
GEOG0139	Public Space and the City
GEOG0142	London Aspects of Change
GEOG0149	Urban Policy
GEOG0051	Mining Social and Geographic Datasets
GEOG0152	Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing
GEOG0155	Social Science Research: Methodologies and Methods
GEOG0160	Rewilding
GEOG0162	Cartography and Data Visualisation
GEOG0167	Migratory Activisms, Creative Citizenships
GEOG0176	Field Evidence of Environmental Change
GEOG0179	Designing and Managing Citizen Science
GEOG0182	Energy Geographies: Politics, Policy and Poetics

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* - Not available to Geography Study Abroad (Affiliate) Students
~ - Not available to External Students ie students, including Study Abroad students, registered in other UCL Departments.

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