Human Geography concentrates on the relationships University Of Manitoba societies have with the places and landscapes they inhabit. Geography students understand how human societies, cultures and economies work and how those systems are interdependent with the physical environment.
Areas of employment for geography graduates include:
- municipal, provincial and federal government
- community economic development agencies
- city or regional planning firms
- social and community service organizations
- parks and recreation departments
- international development organizations
- educational institutions
- cultural resource management agencies
- transportation planning departments
- agricultural and environmental consulting firms
- travel and tourism industry
- environmental boards and commissions
- environmental non-governmental
- organizations (ENGO’s)
- scientific foundations and policy institutes
A Bachelor of Arts in Geography provides students with the opportunity to focus in one of three academic streams:
- Resources, Environment and Society (RS): Students in this stream focus on the geographies of natural and human induced environmental processes in the recognition that current environmental change shapes relationships across all scales of society.
- Global Politics, Justice, and Sustainability (GPS): Students in this stream study geography on a global scale through an integrated assessment of the links between the economic, socio-cultural, ecological and political systems that combine to shape the world they live in.
- Culture, Identity and Space (CIS): Students in this stream study geography with an emphasis on the dynamics between identity, culture and landscapes, with a particular focus on cooperation and conflicts that produce local landscapes.
