Overview
What is Geography?
Geography is a discipline inherently suited to addressing current and future societal challenges. It asks questions about how and why human, physical, and environmental phenomena vary across space and time. Geography is intrinsically interdisciplinary and, as the world becomes increasingly interconnected, geographers are well placed to bring their understanding and skills to bear on social and environmental issues.
Geography: The course for you?
Today, geographical knowledge and experience are more important than ever, helping us to understand a dynamic and rapidly changing world. Our staff are world leaders in their chosen field and bring that expertise to their teaching. You will get to study in the classroom and the field, and undertake independent research in Ireland, overseas and even on Mars!
Do you enjoy…
- Learning to understand the way that global environmental change will alter our future?
- Finding out about the developing world and geopolitics?
- Analysing landscapes and landscape development over time?
Geography at Trinity
Trinity is continually ranked in the world top 100 universities for geography and is a hub of intensive and extensive geographical scholarship in Ireland (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020). We teach and research across the subject, from coastal modelling and environmental change to development theory and urbanisation. Trinity geographers provide expert advice to governments and non-government institutions alike, on issues such as climate change, the economy, social inequality, health and wellbeing.
Graduate skills and career opportunities
Geographers are trained to analyse and provide solutions to diverse global challenges, ranging from the environmental and the urban, to the economic, political and social. This combination of subject specific (e.g. GIS, remote sensing, modelling) and transferable skills (e.g. teamwork, problem solving) make geography graduates highly valued in today’s job market, where adaptability and flexibility are widely regarded as assets.
Careers taken up by graduating geography students include urban and regional planning, environmental consultancy, research and teaching, financial services, foreign affairs, leisure, tourism and overseas development.
Your degree and what you’ll study
The first two years provide a solid grounding in geography. You will take core modules covering physical and human geography, geology and environmental processes, along with foundation modules in mathematics, statistics and computation. You will tailor your experience by selecting optional modules drawn from among the chemical, physical and biological sciences, and human geography.
In third and fourth year you will deepen your knowledge in particular aspects of geography, whilst further developing your portfolio of practical and technical skills. You will take part in a residential field course and learn techniques and skills that can lay the foundations for carrying out an individual research project (dissertation). Topics covered during third and fourth years include climate and environmental change, geomorphology, environmental governance, urban geography, globalisation and development, GIS and remote sensing.
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Study abroad
There are opportunities for students to spend all or part of the third year studying abroad at Exeter, Bordeaux, Paris-Sorbonne, Prague (Charles University), Utrecht or Stockholm universities.
