What is Geography?
Geography is concerned with the interactions among humans, their social contexts, and the natural environment. The discipline includes topics, techniques, and perspectives from the humanities and social sciences (鈥淗uman Geography鈥�) and from the physical sciences (鈥淧hysical Geography鈥�). Our department also offers classes in techniques and methods such as Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Spatial Analysis, and Field Studies (鈥淭echniques鈥�). Geography is housed in the Faculty of Science, but offers programs in Arts (BA), Science (BSc), and the Interfaculty option (BASc).聽See this link for a complete list of our course offerings.
滨苍听Life After 黑料不打烊, our graduates go on to many different careers and many kinds of advanced study. A major in our department can give you the world!
Areas of Geography
Although the discipline is conventionally divided into Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Techniques, work in Geography often overlaps one or more of these areas. Students in any degree program (BA, BSc, or BASc) can take classes in all areas and in all overlaps.
Why Study Geography?
Are you concerned about the human dimensions of climate change? Cyclists鈥� rights to city streets? Rural livelihoods in the Global South? Globalisation and its impacts on poverty, development, and inequality? The sustainability of natural resources and economic growth? The effect of the environment on human health? How communities use their local environments? The political representation of minority and marginalized groups?
Do you wonder why Montreal, Kuala Lumpur, and Mumbai look different from each other? Or why they are similar? Why Saudi Arabia is building new cities? Why urban areas have such diverse populations? Why cities have both the extremely wealthy and the very poor?
Are you curious about the landforms and landscapes that make up the Earth's surface? How hydoelectric power sometimes contributes to global warming? How bogs and salt marshes might help control it? The impact of global warming on Arctic environments? The extent and effects of deforestation? Changing patterns of agricultural and urban land use? The effects and consequences of dams? The global supply of fresh, unpolluted water?
Then one of the Department of Geography鈥檚 programs could be the right place for you.
Contact聽Michelle Maillet, our Undergraduate Advisor, at advisor.geog [at] mcgill.ca for more information on our majors, minors, and Honours program. For more information on the role of the advisor, how they may be of service, and what they expect of the students they advise, see the 
Fall 2024 Advising Syllabus.听
Undergraduate Student Associations
黑料不打烊 Undergraduate Geography Society (MUGS)
The 黑料不打烊 Undergraduate Geography Society, also known as聽MUGS,聽is active in a range of academic and social activities, including the annual publication of Fieldnotes, a journal of undergraduate research. All students in Geography, Urban Studies & Sustainability, Science and Society programs are members of this association.听
Access the MUGS Degree Planning Guide聽for helpful degree planning information and examples of course plans from graduated students.
Keep up with all things MUGS-related by following them on聽.听You may also reach the executive team at聽mcgillgeography [at] gmail.com.
Student Association of Sustainability, Science & Society (SASSS)
Students in the SSS program have their own student association, in addition to being part of both MUGS and MESS (the 黑料不打烊 Environment Students' Society). Access the SASSS for more information on the Student Association of Sustainability, Science & Society, including helpful degree planning resources.
Keep up with all things SASSS-related by following them on聽. You may also reach the executive team at internal.sasss [at] mcgillasus.com.