Aims & Objectives
Course Aims
Encourage the systematic and critical study of: human experience and behaviour; physical, economic and social environments; and the history and development of social and cultural institutions
Develop in the student the capacity to identify, to analyse critically and to evaluate theories, concepts and arguments about the nature and activities of the individual and society
Enable the student to collect, describe and analyse data used in studies of society, to test hypotheses, and to interpret complex data and source material
Promote the appreciation of the way in which learning is relevant both to the culture in which the student lives, and the culture of other societies
Develop an awareness in the student that human attitudes and beliefs are widely diverse and that the study of society requires an appreciation of such diversity
Enable the student to recognize that the content and methodologies of the individuals and societies subjects are contestable and that their study requires the toleration of uncertainty
Develop an understanding of the dynamic interrelationships between people, places, spaces and the environment at different scales
Develop a critical awareness and consider complexity thinking in the context of the nexus of geographic issues, including: acquiring an in-depth understanding of how geographic issues, or wicked problems, have been shaped by powerful human and physical processes; synthesizing diverse geographic knowledge in order to form viewpoints about how these issues could be resolved
Understand and evaluate the need for planning and sustainable development through the management of resources at varying scales.
Assessment Objectives
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of specified content
demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the core theme - global change
demonstrate knowledge and understanding of two optional themes at SL and three optional themes at HL
at HL only, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the HL extension—global interactions
in internal assessment, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a specific geographic research topic
Demonstrate application and analysis of knowledge and understanding
apply and analyse geographic concepts and theories
identify and interpret geographic patterns and processes in unfamiliar information, data and cartographic material
demonstrate the extent to which theories and concepts are recognised and understood in particular contexts
Demonstrate synthesis and evaluation
examine and evaluate geographic concepts, theories and perceptions
use geographic concepts and examples to formulate and present an argument
evaluate materials using methodology appropriate for geographic fieldwork
at HL only, demonstrate synthesis and evaluation of the HL extension—global interactions
Select, use and apply a variety of appropriate skills and techniques
select, use and apply the prescribed geographic skills in appropriate contexts
produce well-structured written material, using appropriate terminology
select, use and apply techniques and skills appropriate to a geographic research question
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