This program builds your understanding of the interactions between Earth’s atmosphere, lithosphere (crust and upper mantle), hydrosphere (total amount of water) and the biosphere. You’ll discover how the planet's oceans, rivers, lakes, mountains, glaciers, forests, ecosystems, and weather and climate are interconnected. 

The Geography (BSc) degree program focuses on geography as an earth science. Foundational courses in your first two years include biology, physics, chemistry, math, and coding. 

In the third and fourth years, you’ll take courses on weather and climate, snow and ice, mountains, hydrology, geomorphology, soils and weathering, and geomatics. Electives in anthropology, environmental science, and natural resources management provide breadth and flexibility for students to follow their interests. 

Field schools in southern California and British Columbia provide you with hands-on experience and the opportunity to apply your knowledge and skills in a wide variety of outstanding natural environments.

Our Landscape Conservation and Management degree provides you with the philosophical foundation, scientific theory, and technical skills to address the challenge of maintaining the functioning of ecosystems across developed, developing and still wild landscapes.

Take courses that consider human activities across a range of ecological scales where landscape and ecosystem-level processes are emphasized.

You will gain skills to work with cutting-edge tools and data that are necessary for the planning and management of multiple values across space and time.

Northern Studies is an interdisciplinary field of particular importance to northern British Columbia and of growing relevance globally.

This program draws on northern-themed courses from geography, political science, anthropology and First Nations studies, as well as online courses in circumpolar studies offered through the University of the Arctic.  

Develop your knowledge of how societies in the circumpolar north are adapting to climate and environmental change, globalization, population shifts, technology, and land-use demands.

Topics you will study in Wildland Conservation and Recreation include:

• the promotion of and advocacy for conservation 
• integrated management of legally designated parks and protected areas 
• conservation area design

• human activities across these areas

Our degree provides students with the philosophical foundation, scientific theory, and technical skills to address the challenge of maintaining functioning ecosystems across developed, developing and still wild landscapes. 

Experiential learning is integrated into class work, uses case studies, practical projects, applied field techniques and includes field schools, faculty-supervised research, and undergraduate research.