Cracow, Poland

Geography

Geografia

Master's
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⇑Geography at UKEN

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: physical science, environment
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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⇑Test: Is Geography the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. Think back to fieldwork during your undergraduate degree. What did you find most rewarding?

2. You’re handed a dataset showing how land use in a region has changed over several decades. What do you do?

3. You’ll read academic literature, write reports and present findings in English, and carry out field projects with people from many countries. How does that sound?

4. The local authority is planning a new housing estate on a floodplain. How do you see it?

5. How do you feel about spatial statistics and remote sensing?

6. While travelling, you end up in a region that’s clearly losing its population. What’s on your mind?

7. At a seminar, someone presents research on climate-driven migration. How do you react?

8. You’re choosing a topic for your Master’s thesis. What appeals to you most?

9. Where do you see yourself after your Master’s?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Geography?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Geography
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth. The first person to use the word "γεωγραφία" was Eratosthenes (276–194 BC). Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding of the Earth and its human and natural complexities—not merely where objects are, but how they have changed and come to be.
Geography
As a young man, my fondest dream was to become a geographer. However... I thought deeply about the matter and concluded that it was far too difficult a subject. With some reluctance, I then turned to physics as a substitute.
Duane F. Marble, Professor of Geography, posted this on his office door at SUNY at Buffalo, jestingly misattributing it to Albert Einstein; it has since been quoted as if it were a genuine quote of Einstein, and debunked at sites online and in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) edited by Alice Calaprice, p. 474.
Geography
Since my youth geography has been for me the primary object of study. When I was engaged in it, having applied the considerations of the natural and geometric sciences, I liked, little by little, not only the description of the earth, but also the structure of the whole machinery of the world, whose numerous elements are not known by anyone to date.
Gerardus Mercator (1578), Introduction to Ptolemy's Geography
Geography
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent.

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