Opinion: Geography needs to Change
By Maria Wallace
Geography students have suffered from credit malnourishment for too long. Three credits for nine-thousand words of effort, as opposed to five credits for a six-thousand word history essay, and six-thousand words for six credits in classics.
It is time for geography students to get their hard work recognised, with the amount of credits that they deserve. Other humanities subjects receive more credits for a similar, if not lesser amount of work.
Religious studies offers six credits for a worksheet style internal, while geography students are required to write an in-depth report for a meager three credits. Geography students are required to use finely honed skills to investigate multiple perspectives in relation to a current world issue. Is this hard work really worth only three credits?
History students are required to use similar perspective taking skills as geographers and write in similar depth. Historians and geographers carry out similar investigations with history being in the past and geography being in the present. Geography students are putting in the same, if not more effort and time than history students, yet they are not rewarded for their efforts equally when it comes to credits.
Now is the time for geography students to get the recognition in the form of credits that they deserve. At least five credits, is what geography students deserve for their time and effort which they invest in their internal.