Education and study

Bachelor of Geography and Geomatics students receive a general basic training during which they are familiarised with the methods, techniques, lines of approach and research results from auxiliary sciences of varied description, that are specific to geography. Students are acquainted with the principles of geographical/spatial research in the areas of physical geography and social geography.

Bachelor students of Geography and Geomatics are expected to assimilate a certain amount of encyclopaedic knowledge throughout the programme. However, this knowledge is subordinate to the requirements of due understanding and insight. Graduate Bachelors of Geography and Geomatics are expected to be duly capable of devising a global view for themselves. In doing so, they are familiarised with on-going scientific debates on geographical issues, environmental issues, issues of territorial organisation and issues of spatial information acquisition & processing and of spatial localisation. They are to be duly aware of the sources and rules of spatial research and are to have learned the ways in which vertical and horizontal relations serve to structure space and the ways in which these parameters are subject to constant change and evolution.

In essence, geography is an interdisciplinary science that rests on a basis of Humanities or Natural Sciences which it produces an integration of.

Masters of Geography are to have a due understanding of the way in which geographical concepts and knowledge are used in applied disciplines and policy fields such as landscape conservation, environmental impact assessment reports, nature conservation, the study of global change, development aid, spatial planning and urban development, regional development and administrative organisation.

Masters of Geomatics and Land Surveying are to have a due understanding of the different mensuration techniques and procedures, be duly familiar with the building and operation of databases and have a due insight into the algorithmics of Geographical Information systems. They are expected to be duly familiar with the land mapping possibilities through terrain observation and remote sensing and the pros and cons and the accuracy levels obtained with each of these methods. They are to have a solid command of mathematical geography, topography, geodesy and cartography and be duly capable of applying this knowledge in the design, compilation and drafting of maps.