勞倫森大學(xué)

Overview

Position yourself as a professional equipped to make sense of trends such as environmental change, human health outcomes, and apply policies to improve the overall human condition.

The program in Geography offers a solid foundation in geographic techniques, physical geography, and human geography, including development issues in Northern Canada, Latin America, and Africa. Students may obtain a Certificate in Geographic Techniques including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing, air photo interpretation, cartography and spatial analysis.

Honours thesis students have the opportunity to gain field-based and laboratory-based experience in permafrost assessment and monitoring.

The department organizes field trips to study the unique geological features of the Sudbury Basin, one of the oldest and largest impact craters in the world. Study abroad courses are also offered regularly in a variety of locations from Mexico to Macedonia.

Career Opportunities

Geographic information systems analysis, urban planning, cartographic specialists, business allocation analysis and target marketing, aquatic ecology, ecosystem analysis, health geography and medical spatial analysis, claims mapping, geology and mineral spatial analysis, water management, economic development, environmental analysis, land-use planning, resource management, social policy analysis, climatology and meteorological analysis, cultural studies, Aboriginal studies, industrial location analysis, civil service, teaching, graduate studies.

A degree will be awarded to students who demonstrate proficiency within three geographic paradigms (physical, human and geographic technique courses), and the ability to carry out the advanced geographic study at the third (3000) and, particularly, fourth year (4000) level. Examples on the physical side include courses in geomorphology, biogeography, hydrology and climatology; whereas human geographic courses emphasize cultural/population geography, political geography, economic geography and urban geography. Geographic techniques courses include geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, cartography, air photo interpretation and spatial statistics.

Program Highlights:

While our faculty members are successful researchers with many publications, teaching and administering outstanding courses remains the top priority.

In addition:

• Students have access to a computer lab with current spatial software packages and a map library.
• Students will study not only the physical features of the land, but also the structure of cities, global economies and markets, as well as political climates and changes around the globe.
• Students learn to understand the complexity and interrelationships between the human and natural environments.
• Students will have opportunities to travel; previous trips have been to Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Pickering and Toronto, United States, Cuba, Mexico, Dakar (Africa), China, Jamaica and so on.

Degree options

• Concentration in Geography
• Minor in Geography
• Minor in Community Leadership