An understanding of place involves questions about the physical and environmental, cultural, economic and political processes that have acted together to shape the nature of these complex place structures.
Geographers are also concerned to see how places are bound 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 the Geography and Environmental Studies or Sciences Programmes. By means of 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 discipline of Geography. Teaching approaches integrate lab work, field study, library and archival searching, as well as the employment of computer technologies as research tools. The Department of Geography is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and its programs connect very well with other disciplines in this group such as Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology, and Commerce.