Other interdisciplinary programmes are the minor in Northern Studies in the Faculties of Arts and Sciences. McGill offers an undergraduate diploma in environmental studies for students who have already completed a degree and wish to enrich their training. One of the most popular programmes with rapidly increasing enrollments in the B.Sc. Joint Major in Environmental Sciences , coordinated by the Faculty of Science. Geography offers a graduate diploma in environmental remote sensing, an M.A. or M.Sc.
Collection development is the responsibility of the geography bibliographer.
Liaison with the Department is maintained by two departmental coordinators - one for human geography and one for physical geography, as well as through consultation with other faculty when required. Contact ranges from discussing specialized material to a significant exchange of information from published reviews, publishers' catalogues and advance publicity information. The Humanities and Social Sciences Library is the major location for the University's collection in human geography. In addition the following McGill libraries hold materials of interest. Walter Hitschfeld Geographic Information Centre which grew out of the Map and Air Photo Library houses a collection of over 200,000 maps, large scale aerial photographs of Quebec, many national atlases and a reference collection including monographs on cartography and its history, cartobibliographies, gazetteers, etc.