GEO 205
Field Course
3
Course Description
Field study is an important geographic activity. At the end of the course, students should be able
to:
1. familiarize the students with their local and surrounding environment;
2. students should have been taken on study tour beyond their local environment; and
3. familiarize themselves with geographic features, social and economic patterns of human
activities.
Course Outline
Detailed study of the geographical and geological forms and processes, the man and environment
interactions, and the social and economic patterns as well the urban geography. Their knowledge
of cartography, remote sensing, GIS are all brought to bear in interpreting their environment.