Level:  master academic studies

Upon end of the studies student will receive a title: Master in geography

The aim of the Master programme of study 'Geography' is to provide students with the additional contemporary scientific knowledge that is compliant with the European standards and educational practices. Students are educated to think creatively and logically, to apply contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches to research in the field of geography, to read relevant scientific literature, to understand and solve complex geographical problems, to apply and present the data obtained, etc. The aim of this programme of study is to train a graduate master student for jobs in various state or private institutions, which conduct geographical or multidisciplinary research in which a specialist of this kind can become a member of a team. Furthermore, the aim of this programme of study is to provide students with the knowledge in physical, social and regional geography and cartography necessary for further scientific research at a higher level - doctoral studies.

Goals of the Geography Master programme are: 1. forming the fundamental and specific theoretical and applicative geographical knowledge; 2. forming the skills necessary to plan and organize field and experimental laboratory research, as well as to plan educational excursions and field research; 3. training students to become completely capable of studying geography as a science and providing them with broader knowledge in the courses they have selected.

Upon successful completion of the Master programme of study, a graduate master student in Geography will form the following competences: • capacity to understand the aims of studying geography at different educational levels; • capcity to study geography as a science through a selection of compulsory and elective courses at this programme of study; • capacity to select appropriate literature or other sources of information, to suggest necessary corrections in the literature written for or used by students or to prepare the necessary printed material for their self study; • capacity to initiate expert interaction through posing appropriate questions and providing examples, with the aim of acquiring knowledge, to involve students in discussion, to encourage them to present and argue their opinions and views, as well as to provide students with appropriate feedback; • capacity to select teaching methods and materials thus motivating students to study geography, as well as to demonstrate the importance of the geographic science in everyday life and various professions; • capacity to follow the students' educational progress, to select appropriate ways and instruments for students' knowledge and skills evaluation, to organize and administer evaluation and to provide students with appropriate feedback.

Applicants who have graduated from the corresponding four year institutions are eligible to apply for the Master programme in Geography

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