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The School of Geography and the Environment emphasizes the importance of fieldwork since we believe there is no substitute for teaching subjects first-hand.

Fieldwork and international opportunities The central and collegiate Library resources, electronically and in print are second to none. The department also has well-equipped Geolabs for practical physical courses and individual research projects including the Geography Research and Teaching Labs, the Oxford Luminescence Dating Lab and the Oxford Rock Breakdown Lab. Field equipment used by students for fieldwork reports and dissertations include Lidar systems for remote sensing of winds, theodolites for tracking balloons to calculate winds in the lower atmosphere, a high specification computing cluster which allows students to access data from the latest climate change experiments, as well as satellite-derived data of clouds and pollution. The facilities available at Oxford are among the best in the country. There is emphasis placed on interdisciplinary approaches within the course, with opportunities to explore the intersections between geography and other disciplines from the humanities, social and natural sciences.

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Students are introduced to the full range of geographical topics in the foundational courses, which they can then follow up in more detail in the optional papers, shaping their programme to match their developing interests. The Oxford Geography degree provides a holistic view of the workings of physical and human environments, the ways in which humans are transforming the world and the implications for human societies. The degree spans such key topics as climate and environmental change, inequality, social, economic and cultural transformation, biodiversity loss, geomorphological processes in drylands, geographical data science, post-colonialism and globalization. Geography provides a diverse interdisciplinary degree that bridges the natural and social sciences, providing enhancement of a broad range of transferable skills, and an education encompassing pressing issues at a range of scales, from local up to global.

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