Head of Department: Berhane Keleta
B.A., University of Addis Ababa
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Specialization: Human Geography; population resettlement and environmental studies
Email: keleta@asmara.uoa.edu.er

 

Overview:

Since 1996 the Department of Geography has offered a four-year program leading to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography. The Department also offers courses to other faculties/departments.

Geography, the study of the earth as home of man, gives a holistic understanding and interpretation of the natural and cultural environments, with emphasis on their interaction and/or interdependence and the spatial patterns that such interactions create. Thus the major objective of the Department is to produce professional geographers with sophisticated skills and knowledge of man-nature relationships.
The Department equips students with skill courses, human geography courses and physical geography courses with emphasis on man-environment relationships. Graduates with this training and skill will be able to:

• Engage in cartographic work, especially the preparation of thematic and topographic maps, which are vital for resource inventory, planning, etc.
• Make land use surveys and mapping, land capability and crop suitability studies, and land use planning
• Interpret remote-sensed satellite imagery and aerial photographs
• Analyze spatial patterns, and
• Teach Geography in Junior and Senior Secondary schools of Eritrea.

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