`This is an essential easy-to-use guide to geography. It is unique in providing not only passive advice but also offering activity based guidance to both potential and current geography undergraduates. <b>Geography at University</b> is wide ranging in its approach offering assistance to all; from those who need help with their dissertation to those writing their curriculum vitae. It is an all encompassing text which offers a fresh and original outlook on geography at degree level' -<b><i> Lorraine Craig, Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)</p> <p></i></p> <p>Geography at University</b> will show students how to do better at university when studying for their degree in geography.</p> <p></p> <p>It explains how university - and geography at university - differs from the subject at school. At university, students are taught new topics in different ways and will be tested on different abilities - the ability to understand, to explain and to apply knowledge; rather than just on the knowledge itself. This means that students need to learn the subject in new ways: <b>Geography at University</b> shows them exactly how to do that.</p> <p></p> <p>Being at university is a phase between school and career, this book will show students how university geography builds on school geography and gives them skills employers will be looking for when appointing graduates.</p> <p></p> <p><b>Geography at University</b> reviews each of the main methods by which students are taught geography - lectures, tutorial, fieldwork, practicals and projects - and explains what tutors will be trying to do during these sessions so that students can gain the most from teaching.</p> <p></p> <p><b>Geography at University</b> explains what tutors are looking for when assessing students works through their essays, examinations, oral presentations anddissertations.</p> <p></p> <p>There is more to getting a degree than just studying geography. There is much that students can do through a gap year or taking paid or voluntary work to give them an edge when applying for jobs after graduation, and<b> Geography at University</b> explains how they can make the most of these opportunities as well.