Plan Your Geography Program
The Geography Undergraduate Advising Team can help with any questions related to Geography programs, program requirements, or courses – please contact us at geogadvising@uvic.ca.
For any questions about university-level requirements or your degree as a whole (including graduation checks), please contact the UVic Academic Advising Center at advising@uvic.ca.
Program Planning
You can consult the Academic Calendar for the specifics of our programs or see the planning worksheets below.
Program Planning Worksheets (Effective Sept 1, 2020):
- Geography Major (BA)
- Geography Major & Environmental Studies Minor (BA)
- Geography & Environmental Studies Double Major (BA)
- Geography Major (BSc)
- Geography Major & Environmental Studies Minor (BSc)
- Geography & Environmental Studies Double Major (BSc)
- Geography & Computer Science (Geomatics) Combined Major (BSc)
- Physical Geography & Earth Sciences Combined Major (BSc)
- Climate Science Combined Major (BSc), Impacts Adaptations & Mitigation Stream
- Climate Science Combined Major (BSc), Physical Climate Science Stream
If you would like to request a program planning worksheet for one of the former, pre-September 2020 program options (including Concentrations), please email geogadvising@uvic.ca.
Study Focus Areas
UVic's Geography program offers four study focus areas: physical geography, human geography, environmental geography, and geomatics. We have defined these categories to give students a guide to course selections, especially for the last two years of study. We recommend selecting some upper level courses you wish to take, and working backwards from there to create your program plan.
Geography Program Updates & FAQs
As of September 1, 2020, the Department of Geography changed some course options and requirements in its BSc and BA programs and discontinued the Concentration options. These changes were made to offer more flexibility in course options to students while maintaining program rigour.
More information including FAQs
If you have any questions about these changes after reviewing the above document, please contact our Geography Undergraduate Advising Team at geogadvising@uvic.ca.