Geography

Website: www.ufv.ca/geography/

Geography is the study of the cultural, physical, and biophysical features of the earth’s surface.

Questions such as: “How are mountain landscapes created?”, “Why does climate vary?”, “How have the major religions spread throughout the world?”, and “Why does the pattern of agricultural activity differ from one region to another?” appear quite diverse, yet geography seeks to discover an underlying order and meaning in this diversity.

To this end geographers analyze elements of the physical environment and human society in order to develop an understanding of the character of places, the spatial and temporal nature of human/environment interactions and earth surface and atmospheric processes.

UCFV offers a major, an extended minor, and a minor in Geography as part of its Bachelor of Arts program.

This section specifies the major,  extended minor, and minor discipline requirements only. Please refer to the Bachelor of Arts section for additional BA requirements.

Geography major requirements

Lower-level requirements: 22 credits

• Geography 101
• Geography 102
• Geography 140
• Geography 201 or 202
• Geography 241 or 242
• Geography 251 or 253.

Upper-level requirements: 32 credits

• Geography 352
• One course in physical geography (GEOG 301, 302, 401, 402)
• One course in human geography (GEOG 311, 343, 344, 345, 360, 443, 444, 445)
• Geography 433
• Geography 452 or 470
• No more than eight credits of the required 32 credits may be in Directed Readings/Directed Studies courses.

Geography extended minor requirements

Lower-level requirements: 21–23 credits

• Geography 101
• Geography 102
• Geography 140
• Geography 251 or 253
• any two other 200-level geography courses.

Upper-level requirements: 16 credits

• 16 credits in upper-level geography courses
• No more than four credits  may be in Directed Readings/Directed Studies courses.

Geography minor requirements

Lower-level requirements: 13–15 credits

• One of Geography 101 or 102
• Geography 140
• any two 200-level geography courses.

Upper-level requirements: 16 credits

• 16 credits in upper-level geography courses.
• No more than four credits may be in Directed Readings/Directed Studies courses.

Faculty

Sandy Vanderburgh, BSc, MSc (Calgary), PhD (SFU), Department Head

John Bélec, BA (Hons) (Brock), MA, PhD (Queen’s)

Cherie Enns, BA (Trinity Western), MA (UBC), MCIP

David Gibson, BA (UC–Santa Barbara), MA (UC–Davis)

Steven Marsh, BA (Hons), (UWO), MSc (Regina)

Doug Nicol, BA (SFU), MA (UBC)

Ian T. Okabe, BSc (Hons) (UBC), Cert. in Meteorology (Alberta), PhD (UBC)

Don Tunstall, BA, MA, MEd (UBC), PhD (Alberta)

Staff

Kathy Peet, BSc (UNBC), lab technician

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