MA Geography at JNU Delhi Offline Course

Master of Arts (MA) in Geography is a full-time two-year postgraduate course and it is offered by the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The focus of the programme is on the contemporary approaches of Geography with special reference to issues and challenges associated with the pattern of regional development in India. The curriculum includes theoretical, topical and methodological courses. The courses cover geographical thought, human ecology, regional development theory, geomorphology, climatology, hydrology, economic geography, social geography, population and settlement geography. All the topical courses have an emphasis on India. Issues on regional development are dealt with in courses on the regional geography of India, meso-regional studies, and levels of regional development in India. The methodological courses cover quantitative techniques, computer-assisted cartography, GIS and remote sensing. As part of the M.A. programme, the centre also runs two compulsory courses on field and survey methods i.e. physical and socio-economic, constituting a vital mode of teaching in the discipline. The students are required to participate in the field work which is usually organised in the challenging terrain and rural settings during the summer and winter vacation.