Human Geography

About this course

Human geography examines how human beings interact with, shape and are shaped by the environments they inhabit, focusing on the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of the relationship between people and place. Where physical geography studies natural processes, human geography asks how societies are spatially organised, how migration and urbanisation transform places, how economic development and inequality are distributed across the globe, how cultures construct and contest identity in relation to territory, and how geopolitical power shapes the world map. The discipline is empirically grounded, theoretically ambitious and deeply engaged with the major social and environmental challenges of the present. At Royal Holloway, University of London you will study for three years full-time, exploring topics including culture, economics and geopolitics and developing an advance

Where its graduates go

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