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Welcome to Human Geography at Macquarie University.
Human Geography provides an important bridge between the social and environmental sciences.
Two common themes for both teaching and research within Human Geography are:
- understanding similarities and differences between places, localities and areas in a range of social, cultural, economic and political aspects of human life.
- understanding interactions between people and their environments.
Human Geographers work at a variety of geographical scales ranging from local, through regional and national to, increasingly, global.
The Department has a strong applied focus, researching and teaching in areas like social and community planning, health-care delivery, population studies, resource and environmental management, public policy development and geographical information science.
The Department has a strong applied focus, researching and teaching in areas like social and community planning, health-care delivery, population studies, resource and environmental management, public policy development and geographic information science.
The Department makes strong contributions through research, teaching and community service and aims to provide a strong foundation of geographical scholarship in everything we do. (see the Discipline Profile for Human Geography at Macquarie).
Research active
Human Geographers work from a strong disciplinary foundation focused on place, space and scale across a wide range of applications, working closely with Social Scientists on questions of Social Inclusion (Centre for Research on Social Inclusion) and social policy and sustainability.
Human Geographers also work with Physical Geographers in studying relationships between people and their environment. At Macquarie there is a separate but closely related Department of Physical Geography
Teaching focused
Human Geography at Macquarie is a high performance teaching group, with award-winning teachers and student-oriented teaching practices.
It is easy to include studies in Human Geography in a BA, BSc or BSocSc degree, the main differences lying in the choice of ancillary subjects. Other degree programs also integrate Human Geography into study outcomes (Undergraduate Pages) Flexible teaching delivery options are a feature of Human Geography at Macquarie with most units available in distance education mode with extensive use of the internet.
Community oriented
Human Geography at Macquarie has a proud record of community service through research, teaching and disciplinary contributions. We also offer great opportunities for student exchange and staff sabbaticals and visits.
