Department of Geography

Dr. Shazia

Department of Geography,offers M.A./M.Sc. Program covering contemporary and emerging fields of Geography having wide ranging interests to meet the growing needs of the Research Organisations and Academic Institutions.
The education programme in M.A./M.Sc. Geography was initiated with a motivation to generate a workforce that could turn into a substantially trained pool to meet the world’s demand of Geographers.Special attention will be paid to the theoretical and thepractical aspects in curricular design that make the students familiar withmodern technological skills and devices and thereby making them eligiblefor getting jobs in various public and private concerns. In addition, we motivate students to take teaching and research as a career and join national and international leading research institutes.

M.A./M.Sc. Geography (Course Structure)

SEMESTER-I

PAPER No.

TITLE OF THE PAPER

MAXIMUM MARKS (100)

Theory

Internal assessment

GEOG 101

Geographical Thought

70

30

GEOG 102

Geomorphology and Indian Physiography

70

30

GEOG 103

Population Geography

70

30

GEOG 104

Agriculture Geography

70

30

GEOG 105

Practical Geography (Cartography)

60+20+20=100

 

TOTAL

500

SEMESTER-II

PAPER No.

TITLE OF THE PAPER

MAXIMUM MARKS (100)

Theory

Internal assessment

GEOG 201

Geography of Resources

70

30

GEOG 202

Climatology

70

30

GEOG 203

Political Geography

70

30

GEOG 204

Urban Geography

70

30

GEOG 205

Practical Geography (Field Survey Part-I, Statistical methods in Geography Part-I and field study Report)

60+20+20=100

 

TOTAL

500

SEMESTER-III

 

PAPER No.

TITLE OF THE PAPER

MAXIMUM MARKS (100)

 

Theory

Internal assessment

 

GEOG 301

Regional Planning and Development

70

30

 

GEOG 302

Oceanography

70

30

 

GEOG 303 (A)

Social and Cultural Geography

70

30

 

or

GEOG 303 (B)

Human Geography

70

30

 

GEOG 304 (A)

Regional Geography of the World Part-I (Asia, North America and Europe)

70

30

 

Or

GEOG 304 (B)

Geography of Rural Settlement and Development

70

30

 

GEOG 305

Practical (Field Survey Part-II, Statistical Method in GeographyPart-II and Field Tour Report)

60+20+20=100

 

 

TOTAL

500

 

SEMESTER-IV

PAPER No.

TITLE OF THE PAPER

MAXIMUM MARKS (100)

Theory

Internal assessment

GEOG 401

Project/ Dissertation Work

 

300

GEOG 402

Seminar

100

GEOG 403

Viva-voce

100

TOTAL

500

 

GRAND TOTAL

2000