This exciting home study course covers three major areas: the natural environment, people in their environments and global issues. It will give you broad understanding of communities and cultures around the world and how they are impacted and constrained by different environments.

Geography is one of the English Baccalaureate subjects.

Key Aims 

The course aims to enable you to develop:

• a sense of place and an understanding of relative location on a local, regional and global scale;
• an awareness of the characteristics and distribution of contrasting physical and human
  environments;
• an understanding of some of the processes affecting the development of such environments;
• an understanding of the spatial effects of the ways in which people interact with each other and with
  their environments;
• an understanding of different communities and cultures throughout the world and an awareness of the
  contrasting opportunities and constraints presented by different environments.

Syllabus and Assessment

The course is designed to prepare you for the Cambridge IGCSE syllabus 0460. Assessment is through one 1 hour and 45 minute and two 1 hour and 30 minute papers. The exam is set in May/June and November of each year, starting in June 2011.

The Home Study Course

We have selected a book which is fully endorsed by Cambridge as your study text. You’ll find it very easy to work with. This, together with the materials in your password protected file (which is online), contain everything you need to start studying right away. The course is designed specifically to cover the above syllabus - so you can be confident that you'll learn everything you need, in order to achieve the best possible grade in the examination. 

Your Tutor and your Assignments 

Your tutor is your online personal learning coach whom you can email at any time, and  to whom you can also talk via Skype.  He or she will give you detailed feedback on your learning assignments, and plenty of advice and encouragement throughout your course. 

You will have assignments with exam type questions to complete at regular intervals during the course. These are a key part of your learning process. They will prepare you thoroughly for your exam and will enable you and your tutor to gauge your progress throughout. Completing the course assignments will greatly increase your chances of a good exam grade.   

When you’ve finished each assignment, you email it to your tutor for assessment via your online file. Your tutor will provide you with rapid and detailed feedback, so you'll see your skills and knowledge developing month by month. 

See fees for Adults or for Homeschoolers.

Course fees include:

• All the required course books.  There are no extra charges for books, other than for postage outside the UK. 
• Assessment and feedback on all assignments within 5 working days.
• Access to your personal tutors via email and Skype.
• Access to all online resources through WHOLE (Wolsey Hall Online Learning Environment)

Course fees do NOT include examination fees, which are payable to the examination centre.