Global Geography (BA)
Global Geography addresses globalization and place-making among people in their social and physical worlds. You will learn to analyze the links between cities and the world economy, understand processes of uneven development and inequality, and learn how migration and mobility shape our politics and society. Global Geography engages climate change and environmental processes through a distinctive mix of physical science, geographical information systems (GIS), and social science. Geographers work across boundaries: thinking through problems using diverse approaches at multiple scales, from the local landscape around us to the global human impact on the earth today.
Our Global Geography program embraces the place-based aspects of the discipline and draws on global perspectives. You will study how history, economics, politics, culture and society produce inequality within human and physical geographies.
Students will explore these critical global issues:
Human migration and identity
Economic production and consumption
Geopolitical power
Global urbanization
The flow of knowledge, culture and data
Networks of global cities
Environmental change
As a Global Geography student, you will earn distinctive interdisciplinary knowledge and skills through hands-on classroom activities, field- and lab-based exercises, and community engagement. You’ll gain technical know-how and experience in geographic analysis, methodological approaches and spatial thinking while enhancing your communication, reasoning and leadership skills to address environmental and societal issues.
Ultimately, you will acquire the key geographical skills of spatial analysis and critical thinking that will equip you for a career in Canada and abroad in areas such as government, journalism and media, development agencies, private-sector corporations and the non-profit sector.
Sample Courses
Introduction to World Geography
Urban Geography
Nations and Nationalism
Disaster! Earth’s Extreme Events
Advanced Field Studies in Physical Geography
