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My name is Dr Annie Hughes and I am the Course Director for the Geography programmes here at Kingston University.
We embed field trips in all three years here at Kingston
In the first year students go to the Isle of Wight.
Within about three or four weeks of coming to Kingston they are on a bus, on a coach,
traveling to the Isle of Wight where we have a school-wide field trip for a long weekend,
which introduces students to the idea of practical work and a whole range of field techniques.
Then, at Easter we offer a trip to Swansea which is for all the Geography students
where we look at a whole range of issues from physical geography, beach morphology and geomorphology,
to issues relating to urban development and decline. Particularly in the South Wales valleys
and we also look at gentrification and inequality.
In the second year we go a little further afield and the students get to go to sunny Malta.
Where the trips are much more student led. The students actually conduct their own projects in Malta for five days.
We have two or three days where we, the staff lead the trip,
but after that, the students have five days where they conduct their own projects,
which they have developed in the UK and it's a good precursor for their third year,
which is where they have to do their own research.
In the third year we offer a trip. This year to South Africa. We also offer trips to Morocco
and to southwest USA. Those trips are optional which students choose or if they wish to.
They again, cover a whole range of issues and many of them are actually staff led, we lead those trips ourselves.
If you are thinking of coming to do a Geography degree at Kingston.
Please come to one of our open days where you can chat to myself or one of my colleagues about the course
and also interact with some of our current students who will give you a very honest opinion
of both their time at Kingston and their experiences in the course.