Autumn Term
Paper 2: Challenges in the Human Environment – The Changing Economic World
- HIC/MIC (NEE)/LIC classification
- Measures of development: 6 different indicators
- HDI and limitations
- DTM: Stages, countries, anomalies
- Reducing the development Gap: How to solve a problem like Chad
- Using tourism to close development gap: Kenya case study
- Nigeria Case Study: Location, characteristics, changing industrial sectors
- Nigeria Case Study: Role of TNCs and international aid, impacts on environment
- UK economic change: Reasons for change and trends, development of new industries, SciTech case study, JLR case study
- UK economic change: North-south divide, importance of the UK in the world economy
- UK economic change: Improvements in infrastructure
Spring Term
Paper 3: Fieldwork and Issue Evaluation – Fieldwork
- Suitable question for geographical enquiry
- Selecting, measuring and recording data appropriate to the chosen enquiry
- Selecting appropriate ways of processing and presenting fieldwork data
- Describing, analysing and explaining fieldwork data
- Reaching conclusions
- Evaluation of geographical enquiry
- Application to Liverpool Urban Generation
- Application to Porth Eirias
Paper 3: Fieldwork and Issue Evaluation – Issue Evaluation
- Comprehension of the pre-release material
- Additional research and enquiry
- Practice of potential questions
Summer Term
All: Geographical Skills
- Cartographic Skills
- Graphical skills
- Numerical Skills
- Statistical skills
- Use of qualitative and quantitative data
- Formulate enquiry and argument