Tuition comprises human geographical and physical geographical courses at both bachelor and master’s level. Central themes in human geography are globalization, landscape change, environmental problems, urbanization, regional development, migration, poverty, and inequality. Approaches to problems are related to local level as well as to regional and global levels. Physical geography covers knowledge of landforms, vegetation and climate in different parts of the world, and provides insight into how water, ice and wind change the landscape. The relation between these processes and their consequences for humanity is central at all times. Geography uses general quantitative and qualitative methods, and special geographical methods such as cartography, geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing. The discipline has a strong tradition of fieldwork and field courses are included in many of the course units offered.
Geography is a wide discipline that combines well with natural sciences, humanistic sciences and social sciences. One of the main aims in Geography is to develop ability to understand relationships and see human activity and the natural environment in a total perspective.
The Department of Geography offers seven different programmes of study
