Bachelor of Arts - Geography

The Bachelor of Arts - Geography program provides the student with a greater awareness of travel and tourism phenomena and the industry and organizations that support it. Emphasis is placed on increased understanding travel and tourism as a system of interrelated components, which include tourists, destinations, transportation systems, business and the natural environment. Important elements of travel and tourism training include tourism geography, transportation, facilities management, marketing, planning and development and travel operations.

Students will study human geography, physical geography and cartography. They will use the latest software and hardware to learn research methods and build marketable skills for the geographic information sciences. They will be ready to claim jobs in a global atmosphere where geography is gaining relevance as the interaction of humans, the landscape and the environment intensifies.