What is Geography?
Geography is the study of the relationships among people, places, society, and the environment.
Why Study Geography at Clark?
Where Geography Takes You: Careers in Geography!
Geography at Clark offers tracks (or geographic domains) to explore these relationships.
Nature and Society or Global Environmental Studies
Globalization, Cities and Development
Earth Systems Science
GIScience
Geographers use the perspectives gained in these tracks of study to consider a large range of questions about how the world is organized and operates. Examples include:
- Will the spatial organization of ethnic and cultural groups lead to the break up of Iraq?
- Did the construction of levees along the Mississippi to promote the development of New Orleans make the city more vulnerable to hurricane disasters?
- Why have roses replaced domestic food crops on small farms in Andean Ecuador?
- Why has Hartford, Connecticut gone from being the richest city in the US to the poorest?
- Can urban landscapes sustain nature's biodiversity?
- Do women and men experience a particular place in the same way?
- How much forest cover is lost or gained in Massachusetts each year?
- Why is the global distribution of wealth so unequal?
- Is the Internet Revolution as profound as the Industrial Revolution for economies, ecologies, and social relationships?
Why Study Geography at Clark?
- Exceptional reputation for placement
- Top-tier ranking (Ruggs 2005)
- Outstanding, internationally recognized faculty
- Faculty dedicated to undergraduate teaching
- Hands-on teaching and learning
- Undergraduate research opportunities (e.g., the HERO program)
- Opportunities for paid and volunteer research with faculty
- Opportunities for publication
- Many study abroad opportunities
- Research on hot topics and relevant global problems
- Excellent on-campus GIScience facilities
- Relationships with other renowned research institutions
- Small classes
- Elbow teaching philosophy which actively promotes research and intellectual exchanges with faculty and graduate students
Where Geography Takes You: Careers in Geography!
To find out more about careers in Geography click on the Association of American
Geographers web page link entitled
Using
Geography and GIS: Geographers at Work.
Our Geography graduates go on to
pursue a wide range of careers, including:
- City or regional planner
- Water resources manager
- Climatologist
- Transportation planner
- Economic development specialist
- Gender Conservation specialist
- Historic preservation planner
- GIS specialist
- Environmental analyst
- Environmental Justice Activist
- Environmental lawyer
- Housing agency director
- Market analyst
- Urban gardens manager
- Environmental toxicology researcher
- Community-based conservationist
- Remote sensing specialist