COURSE: BSC IN GEOGRAPHY

This programme equips graduate students with the necessary skills and knowledge required to enter the geography industry.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years full time

Compulsory Sujects

First year subjects:

• Computer literacy


• Academic literacy


• Cartographic skills


• Introduction to human geography


• Introduction to environmental sciences


• Cartography


• Calculus


• Information literacy


• Remote sensing


• SA and global geomorphology


• Climate and weather of South Africa


• Geography


• Geoinformatics and Meteorology

Second year subjects:

• Process geomorphology


• Introductory GIS


• Urban modelling


• Urban social morphology


• Geographic data analysis


• Geography


• Geoinformatics and Meteorology

Third year subjects:

• Development geography


• Human environmental interaction


• Geographic information systems (GIS)


• Environmental geomorphology


• Landscape analysis


• Spatial analysis


• Geography


• Geoinformatics and Meteorology

Careers: geographer.

Source: www.up.ac.za