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About the course
This Geography major explores how people and environments interact across urban, rural, regional and remote places. You’ll build skills to analyse contemporary challenges such as climate change, urban growth, bushfires, food security and changing communities. The major is studied as part of a Curtin undergraduate degree (such as the Bachelor of Arts or other listed degrees) in the environmental and social sciences. The programme develops laboratory techniques, scientific writing, and analytical methods for research and industry settings.
Career outcome
Graduates can pursue roles that apply geographic analysis to environmental and community challenges. Career paths may include landscape or natural resource management, environmental or sustainability consulting, community or regional development, bushfire management, spatial analysis and demography. Employment is common across government and planning, environmental assessment, disaster management, education and international development, using mapping and field-based insights from this Bachelor-level Geography discipline.
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