This BA (Honours) in Social Sciences (Geography) is one of several specialist routes available in our BA (Honours) Social Sciences (R23) degree. Half of your studies will be in interdisciplinary social science and sociology, giving you a firm grounding in the knowledge and ideas that are central to the social sciences. For the other half, you’ll learn how key geographical concepts can be applied to some of the most pressing challenges of the twenty-first century, including globalisation, development, climate change, migration and urbanisation.

Geography is a discipline that integrates the environmental and social sciences. Geography studies location, places, regions, human-environment interactions, and movement. Its tools include cartography and geographic information systems (GIS). On the job, Geography graduates address social, physical, and environmental problems from the global to the local scale.

Learn essential geospatial skills to help explain our world by analyzing patterns to solve problems. Geography B.A. integrates concepts from physical and social sciences as well as humanities to address current issues of local, national, and international importance. Work closely with instructors on geographic projects in two new GISC labs.

The Geography Department empowers students to address several contemporary problems such as physical resource development, racial/ethnic patterns, urban decay, business geography, and pollution. The curriculum helps students better understand how natural and human environments become organized geographically by institutional decisions and the consequences of human actions.

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is Otago's most flexible undergraduate degree program, enabling students to study from a selection of more than 40 arts and social science subjects, as well as papers offered elsewhere in the University. Academic breadth is complemented by in-depth knowledge gained through majoring in one or two subjects with the option of minors in one or two others.

The Geography, BA is designed to offer students the opportunity to study the integrated social and environmental processes that continuously shape and reshape the world we live in. This major provides students with broad training across the core subdisciplines of geography (human, physical, and GIScience), while also offering the requisite flexibility for those students seeking a multidisciplinary educational experience.

Join one of the top ten Geography departments in the UK (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021).

A student interested in law school should pursue an academic background that emphasizes and cultivates reading, writing, and verbal analytical skills along with a study of society from political, economic, cultural, and philosophical perspectives.

Join one of the top ten Geography departments in the UK (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021).

Join one of the top ten Geography departments in the UK (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021), spending one year in paid work.

Survey the lay of the land. Geography is a practical discipline that studies the distribution and movement of people, things, and ideas across Earth.

Geographers ask where things are located on the surface of the earth, why they are located where they are, how places differ from one another and how people interact with the environment. This is a discipline that bridges the social sciences and natural sciences and that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cites as a growing career field.

The Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with a Geographic Information Science (GIS) Emphasis is a program designed to equip students with foundational knowledge in environmental issues alongside...

The Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences with a Geography Concentration offers students an integrated understanding of social, cultural, economic, and environmental aspects of the wor...

The Bachelor of Arts in Geography with a concentration in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provides students with a solid foundation in understanding how spatial data is used to analyze and solve ...