Geography as a degree

[summerdays]

Geography courses generally come in 2 flavours: BA and BSc. The latter will tend to concentrate on physical geography and GIS (and will be more like environmental or earth sciences), whereas the former tend to be more human geography-based (and closer to sociology and politics). You can mix and match more in some universities than others, and there are many 'Geography and...' courses these days. You can probably specialise of continue to be a generalist as much as you wish, but remember that if you really want to specialise, this generally happens at graduate not undergraduate level. All undergraduate education is relatively 'general' (or wishy-washy, if you prefer...).

I did a Geography degree and enjoyed it - though it was different to A-level. Whether you did Science or Social Science degree (I think) was based on what A-levels you entered with rather than what you actually studied. (This is going back a wee while). I ended up choosing a course where you could specialise after a year and do one of 3 options: Human, Mixed or Physical Geography (to get rid of most of the boring stuff I wasn't interested in). I didn't directly use my degree afterwards - I think I see a degree as more a general qualification rather than opening specific doors. Everyone from my year went on to do a whole variety of jobs.

 

[summerdays]

Good thoughts about the eco stuff. Not so sure about mining, oil (seems a bit morally corrupt to go into this industry). Earthquakes and volcanoes are interesting....but difficult to imagine jobs based around them (especially in the UK)

I know people involved in earthquakes but they are in the engineering line.

 

[Joe24]

Joe...your classmates sound special....I teach kids map reading who are like 13 and they all grasp it first time nooo problem.

Very niave, abit simple, but she is very very smart really.
Shes a clever stupid person.