Geographers engage the earth at varying sites, situations, contexts, and locations in order the understand, explain, solve, and even assist in preventing many of the world’s most urgent and complex environmental and social problems. They conduct fieldwork to examine the connections and relationships that exist between the physical and human, ecological and cultural, and technological and political realms of the world.
Human geographers work in the fields of urban planning, transportation, marketing, real estate, tourism and international business. Physical geographers on the other hand study climate patterns, land forms, vegetation, soils and water. Geographers also examine linkages between human activity and natural systems. They study issues of global warming, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, groundwater pollution and flooding.
Geography is an attractive major as its theories and methods provide marketable skills and the broad perspectives on environment and society that are applicable over a broad spectrum of occupations. It also provides a sound foundation for students who plan to enter graduate work in a variety of fields, from geography to business, land use planning, law and medicine.
CSEC Minimum passes: 5
CSEC Mandatory: English Language, Mathematics
CAPE Minimum passes: 2
Alternative Qualifications:
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An Associate Degree or equivalent certification (or equivalent qualification) in a relevant programme from a tertiary level institution recognised by UWI,
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have any other appropriate qualifications acceptable to the FFA.
Career Opportunities: Urban Planning, Transportation, Marketing, Real Estate, Tourism, International Business