This Major focuses on the environmental systems and socio-economic forces that underlie many major issues facing our planet and humanity, particularly the importance of managing both the natural and built environment for sustainable development. Geography helps prepare students to meet this challenge into the future. In practice, Geography provides a ‘bridge’ between the traditional social and physical sciences to focus directly on relationships between people and their environment, the spatial consequences, and the resulting regional structures that have emerged on the earth’s surface. Students will acquire essential geographical skills such as field survey techniques, map reading and interpretation satellite imagery and the use of census data. These skills are valuable for a wide range of rewarding careers such as urban and regional planning, teaching, environmental assessment and management, tourism and regional development. The Major has been designed to accommodate local and international students from diverse backgrounds, including those who have no prior learning in Geography. Geography units do not require pre-requisites, and students from other programs are invited to enrol in the Major or take individual units as electives.

The Major in Geography comprises 120 credit points (eight (8) units) selected from the units listed below, with no more than 30 credit points (two (2) units) at Level One and no less than 45 credit points (three (3) units) at Level Three.