A geography and environment degree offers students the opportunity to tackle complex human and environmental problems with a skill set that emphasizes a combination of knowledge-building, informed problem solving and much more.
As a student in the Geography and Environment Department (GENV), you will examine some of the most significant issues facing our planet and its inhabitants, including climate change, species extinction, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, poverty, and development.
Our GENV programs combine the strengths of a variety of disciplines across two faculties: the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities (FHSS) and the Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences (FNAS). These combined strengths provide you with a holistic understanding of issues that cut across a variety of fields, opening up a wide range of employment opportunities.
Our campuss close proximity to freshwater, mountain, saltwater, and island habitats, as well as urban, rural and agricultural areas means that you will gain a wealth of hands-on experience in environmental stewardship and management and community development practices. Our Geographic Information Systems (GIS) lab and expertise provides up-to-date skills training in GIS.
You will learn from professors with extensive expertise in diverse fields such as ecological restoration, sustainable agriculture, marine biology, landscape ecology, chemical ecology, urban and regional planning, resource management, physical and human geography, and geomatics. Also, the faculty and staff engaged in running the GENV programs provide leadership in the local community and more globally in their scholarship and in more practical ways as they approach the task of serving humanity and creation stewardship.
AFTER GRADUATION:
Graduates of our GENV programs have numerous career opportunities, including: senior environmental manager, city planner, GIS technician, agricultural mapping assistant, fisheries officer, marine science assistant, forester, environmental consultant, plant nursery inventory specialist, research associate, and K-12 school educator (elementary, middle and secondary schools). Many of our graduates have also furthered their education in relevant fields such as: MSc in Resource & Environmental Management, MA in Planning MSc and MA in Geography MSc Sustainable Agriculture MSc Agricultural Sciences MSc and PhD, Botany MA Environmental Policy MSc and PhD in Cetacean Research and MSc in Herpetology.