Algoma University

Course Description

• This program is divided into four major thematic areas: physical geography, human geography, human-environmental geography, and geomatics

• Students will develop the ability to identify critical processes in landscape form and structure, earth-building and the formation of rocks, weathering and mass movement, coastal/shoreline environments, and much more

• This program is ideal for students interested in geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, climate change, environmental sustainability, research, and urban and regional development

• Students will explore how and why the first known cities formed, how culture is spread and stagnated by barriers, and how different regions in the world function culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically

• Students will be introduced to the world of cartography, GIS, remote sensing of the environment, and air photo interpretation