Honours BA in Human Geography (Urban Geography) - Scarborough in Scarborough Canada | University of Toronto

Explore the forefront of research on human spatial behavior and societal disparities. Through hands-on fieldwork, you'll develop essential skills for conducting empirical research and analyzing the forces that influence communities, economies, and urban environments. Our program emphasizes studying spatial distributions of human activity and regional characteristics, while examining the intricate connections between society and nature, including challenges related to land use and habitation.
In the major program, you'll select courses from two specialization areas while building expertise in GIS or qualitative methodologies. You'll acquire tools to interpret modern social science theories regarding how location, landscape, and spatial arrangements both influence and reflect social systems and behaviors. The specialist track offers comprehensive training across all three concentration areas plus both GIS and qualitative methods, providing deeper geographic knowledge and advanced methodological preparation for graduate studies or professional careers. Consider pairing this with minors in GIS or City Studies for enhanced perspective.
The minor program offers a broad overview of human geography, allowing you to tailor your studies by selecting from diverse course offerings without mandatory methods training. You can concentrate on one specific area of interest within the field.
This concentration examines urban aspects of critical contemporary issues like environmental sustainability, economic resilience, and equity. Students analyze urban transformation at various scales, from global cities to local neighborhoods, investigating topics such as metropolitan expansion, megacity dynamics, and globalization's urban impacts. Current research focuses on diverse urban phenomena including creative economies, environmental sustainability, housing transitions, mobility patterns, neighborhood change, urban governance, and social spatial relationships.