Ø Impart
current knowledge and practical skills to Geography graduates through theory,
practices and field exercises.
Ø Prepare
highly qualified professionals that can engage in local, national, and global
issues of their field
Ø Instill
in students ethical and moral values related to citizenship and community
Ø Provide
relevant, up-to-date, and integrated theoretical and practical skills that can
be applied to solving community issues and problems.
Ø Integrate
the curriculum with marketplace and societal needs and to prepare students for
careers in the public and private sectors or for advanced graduate study.
Ø Provide
optimum community service and conducts high quality research on relevant
issues.
Ø Conducts
high quality professional training.
Objectives
of the program
The
program aims to provide undergraduate & post graduate students with both
subject-specific knowledge and general skills. It aims:
v To
produce all rounded professionals capable of understanding facts and patterns
of spatio-temporal processes and possibilities of human and physical phenomena
and their interactions
v Identifying
and solving Spatio-temporal problems of the physical and human environment
v Comprehending
the risks, potentials & prospects of the country’s environment
v Generating,
analyzing, and presenting Spatio-temporal data of physical and human
environment using different scientific procedures, models, tools, and
techniques
v Demonstrating
confidence and conviction that enable them to become positive role models to
society, committed to change and development
v Participating
in community development by:
v Providing
various kinds of professional trainings to the community
v Awakening
the general public of environmental problems, their causes, consequences and
mobilize the public for positive actions
v Providing
professional consultancy services to accelerate environmental, social & economic developments
v Conduct
research in different areas (environment, development, society, economy, etc.,)
that would help in solving societies’ problems and disseminate results thereof.
v Establish
a system & culture of provision of continuous training, consultancy
services & conducting research
v Enhance
customer satisfaction with departmental services by devising sound system
Professional and
Graduate Profile
Professional Profile
The
graduates of this program are expected to have the following professional
profiles:
•
Engages in education (in universities, colleges, high school) and research at
national, regional research & development organizations;
•
Design and implement socio-economic development policy
•
Advice and implement on environmental and development related issues in
government, community based institutions, commercial enterprises and
non-government organizations;
•
Work as self-employed in various areas of development endeavors; manage natural
resources
•
Plan in various transport facilities; Promote tourism industry
•
Involve in biodiversity conservation and wildlife management
•
Participate in watershed management and land rehabilitation
•
Engage in landscaping and urban development
•
Solve problems related to climate and environmental hazards
•
Consult on livelihood and food security issue; analyze rural-urban linkages.
•
Make & interpret maps, aerial photos & satellite imageries; Provide
geo-spatial analysis service
•
Interpret the link between environment, development and population dynamics;
•
Engage in solving societal problems such as HIV/AIDS and Gender issues;
•
Provide consultancy service in solving resource based and boundary conflicts;
Graduate
Profile
Graduates
who complete their education from the department shall be able to:-
Ø Demonstrate
knowledge and understanding of spatio-temporal distributions in both physical
and human phenomena, and use geographic
and environment perspectives to evaluate, make decisions about, and report on
issues, processes, and events,
Ø Identify,
collect and compile information through archives, field survey; aerial
photographs and remotely sensed data to alleviate spatio-temporal problems of
physical & human environment and develop potentialities,
Ø Care for ethical values, and provide leadership
role models in national, regional and local development with a clear
understanding of values and needs of the country
Ø Capable of working cooperatively for the
common good of society
Ø Use
different theories and models to understand and explain spatio-temporal
processes, trends and patterns related to human and physical environment,
Ø Initiate
and participate actively in community services and developmental activities
Ø Generate,
organize, and analyses Geo-data for Spatial Decision Support system
Ø Apply
modern tools and techniques like GIS and remote sensing in managing resources
and protecting environment for sustainable development
Ø Highly
committed to self-development through continuous acquisition of knowledge, experience
& able to survive in an environment of continuous change in a rapidly
evolving society;
Ø Conduct
researches, which are beneficial to society and present the result of their
findings in clear and coherent manner;
Ø Appreciate
the natural environment, work on resources and environmental degradation,
pollution and population explosion, which are global issues of today’s,
Ø Involve
as an expert in land administration and registration issues;
Ø Actively
participate in food security and livelihood related research undertakings.