The Department of Geography offers courses in both Geography and Geoscience. The Department offers a Major and a Minor in Geography and provides many courses, especially in Geoscience, that are integral to the Environmental Studies and Sciences programmes at Mount Allison. Geography is about the study of place at various spatial and temporal scales. An understanding of place involves questions about the physical and environmental, social, cultural, economic, and political processes that have acted together to shape the complex place structures that exist on our landscape.
Geographers are particularly concerned with the linkages that bind places together.
Because Geoscience embraces the realms of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biology, it is one of the most wide-ranging of the sciences. The earth is the stage upon which all biologic activity takes place, including human activity, thus an understanding of Geoscience is fundamental to Geography and Environmental Studies or Sciences Programmes. Through a system of intensive semester length courses, the Geography programme at Mount Allison aims to expose students to the approaches and substance of the academic disciplines of Geography and Geoscience. Teaching approaches integrate lab work, field study, library and archival searching, as well as the employment of computer technologies as research tools. There are also strong links to disciplines in other Faculties including Biology, History, and Religious Studies, as well as to the interdisciplinary programmes in Environmental Studies and Sciences.