Program Related Skills
Academic courses in this program provide opportunities to develop the following types of skills. Check out our My Career Centre webpage to learn how to articulate skills you’ve developed in your program to employers and/or academic admissions committees in our Skills from your Academics module (under our ‘Assess Yourself’ section). Make a career counselling or an employment strategy appointment to discuss how you can demonstrate these skills to employers.
- Analytical: Critically analyze complex geographical and environmental data, identifying patterns and relationships between variables to support evidence-based decision-making.
- Oral / Written Communication: Effectively explain geographical and environmental concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, in both written and verbal formats.
- Research: Design and conduct research projects, including formulating hypotheses, collecting quantitative & qualitative data, and evaluate results to address geographical and environmental issues.
- Technical Knowledge: Acquire hands-on expertise with geospatial technologies, including ArcGIS, QGIS, Erdas IMAGINE and R, for spatial data analysis, remote sensing, statistical computing and environmental modeling.
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Updated December 2024