Students enrolled in James Cook University’s Bachelor of Arts majoring in Geography will learn the skills required to analyse ecological and environmental problems. You will learn to identify problems, evaluate explanations, analyse data and suggest solutions. On top of this, you will also complete practical and project work, both alone and in groups, gathering and interpreting information in the field as well as from written sources. Specific skills include field observation and measurement, basic statistical procedures, computing techniques, and, in physical geography, methods of laboratory analysis.

By studying the interaction between people, natural events and the environment geographers can help solve major ecological and environmental problems. Geographers are ‘big picture’ people, bringing together a combination of specialist skills to tasks such as: Environmental and town planning Land management Environmental impact assessment. Geographers work for government or non-government agencies with interests in: Local and regional planning disaster planning Population planning Protected area management. With further study, Geography graduates can pursue careers as researchers and teachers at all levels of the education system.