Our world faces numerous challenges, including globalisation, climate change, resource depletion and environmental pollution. Geography, a long-standing discipline that makes use of a variety of techniques, has demonstrated tremendous flexibility in helping to identify solutions to these challenges. Resource management, particularly in the context of the relationship between mankind and the environment, has always been a focal point of interest and inquiry in geographical studies. Our department strives to pursue the geographical knowledge and effective resource management pertinent to the sustainable development of the human race. Our programme equips students with knowledge and skills of geographical sciences, with an emphasis on integrating different subjects and specialisations. Our curriculum maintains a balance between theories and applications and provides broad and solid training through a wide variety of teaching and learning activities. Students are also educated to cultivate attitudes and values that will enable them to become socially and environmentally responsible citizens in today’s globalised world.

The curriculum has evolved to include four areas of concentrations: (a) Geo-spatial Data Science; (b) Physical Environment and Resource Management; (c) Urban and Regional Development; and (d) Smart Sustainable Cities. We adopt a wide range of teaching and learning activities from the very first year of study, and most of the courses offered by the Department use interactive methods and encourage interactive learning. For example, tutorials, laboratory and field work are adopted to expose students to experiential learning. Field study courses are conducted both locally and outside Hong Kong with students having the option of taking part in field studies in China, Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan, among other destinations.

In line with the educational values of the University, students graduating from our department will possess broad knowledge which will provide them with diverse employment and career development opportunities. They will also understand the theories and methods of geography and resource management. Graduates will have the ability to keep abreast of the latest socio-economic development and environmental issues.

Furthermore, students will have the ability to adopt a problem-based learning approach to strengthen vital and generic skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, self-managed learning etc., and they will acquire communication skills and interpersonal skills and the ability to adapt to individual and group work. In the final year of study, students will be required to take a capstone course that involves independent research and a final year thesis. Finally, having gone through the curriculum, students will possess an awareness of the concept and ideology of sustainable development and thus become sensitive to environmental and resource management issues as well as have a global outlook with emphasis on local, regional, and national, and global issues in order to better understand Hong Kong, Mainland China and the world.

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HK$ 44,500