If you want a sound science degree that also takes you teaching and guiding outdoor activities, this unique degree has been designed for you.

Our course blends the academic foundation of our Environmental Geography degree with practical teaching on leading and guiding groups outdoors, and providing educational activities with a geographical and environmental emphasis. You’ll explore core issues in geography, human impacts on our planet , biogeography and scientific techniques. Our field courses and practical teaching will give you valuable hands-on experience.

Our leading mountaineering instructors and outdoor specialists will teach you outdoor leadership, mountain skills and environmental education. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to gain the Mountain Leader Award, endorsed by the Mountain Training Association. This is a physically demanding course requiring a certain level of health, fitness and mobility.

An Environmental Geography and Outdoor Education degree will allow you to enter a wide range of relevant careers including:

• outdoor instructor
• environmental consultant
• conservation
• education and teaching
• environmental science
• research
• ecologist
• countryside rangers and guides
• environmental education and teaching
• ecotourism and travel
• sports and fitness occupations

Our combined approach for this degree will allow you to enter a wide range of relevant careers. Students will be equipped to undertake employment in the same professions as our standard Environmental Geography graduates such as education, conservation and environment professions, science and technology professions, travel and related occupations, and sports and fitness occupations.

Our course will give you the foundation for graduate entry to advanced postgraduate taught and research degree programmes in the environmental field.

This course is not designed to train you to become an outdoor instructor, although you can gain additional qualifications independently (e.g. SPA or BCU awards); or undertake a suitable postgraduate programme in outdoor education which would then qualify you to pursue this type of career.