Bachelor of Education (Honours) (Geography)

The Bachelor of Education (Honours) (Geography) [BEd(GEOG)] programme aims at developing students with the knowledge and understanding of:

1. how natural environment influences human activities and vice versa; 
2. the changing development of geographical phenomena and issues in terms of space and time;
3. the characteristics and functioning of major natural environments, through the analysis of the transformations of and interactions within them;
4. the characteristics and development of major human activities in different geographical regions, and
5. the geographical issues arising from people-environment interactions and the human responses to such issues, as well as the implications of these human responses for resource management and governance.

On successful completion of the programme, students will be able to:

PILO1: demonstrate a solid understanding and command of geographical concepts and theories and apply the knowledge to solve geographical problems in the local, regional and global contexts with complex human-physical interface;

PILO2: develop learning capability to be a competent and effective learner and teacher in a dynamic and an ever-changing society;

PILO3: apply critical thinking to analyze the geographical and environmental issues that address the relationship among land, nature and people in the physical and human environments;

PILO4: demonstrate the pedagogical literacy and competency required for the development and implementation of curriculum in secondary schools; and

PILO5: develop essential abilities to plan, execute, report on field work and geographical research with the skills of data analysis, Geographic Information System, remote sensing and field studies.

BEd(GEOG) students are required to complete 39 credit points of major courses and 6 credit points of pedagogy courses related to geographical education. There are altogether 13 Geography Major Courses with two Pedagogy courses in Geographical Education, which will cover three compulsory parts, namely “Living with our Physical Environment”; “Facing Changes in the Human Environment”; “Confronting Global Challenges” and four elective parts namely “Dynamic Earth: The Building of Hong Kong”; “Weather and Climate”; “Transport Development, Planning and Management”; “Regional Study of Zhujiang (Pearl River) Delta” of the HKDSE Geography Curriculum. The list of the courses is delineated below:

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