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UNIVERSITY OF QATAR DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY Main Objectives The Department of Geography offers a BA Programme in geography / planning. The programme aims at keeping the students in close contact with the Qatari environment and society. The courses, therefore, have an applied character that help the students contribute to building their knowledge in the various branches of geography. They seek to provide the students with the technical knowl- how of the discipline in order to keep up with the pace of progress in the fields of science and technology. The courses encourage the students to acquire the skills pertinent to practising the profession of urban planning on the local or regional levels and further deepen their grasp of quantitative analysis with the purpose of contributing to the development strategies and projects undertaken by the Qatari society.

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The BA Programme is worth 130 credit hours; it has three components:

 University Requirement Worth 20 Credit Hours(See Degrees & Programs for details) 

College Requirement Worth 20 Credit Hours(See Degrees & Programs for details) and

 Specialization (Major) Requirement (90 Credit Hours). This includes the following compulsory, elective and ancillary courses:

Compulsory Courses (36 Credit Hours)
Course Number	Course Title	Credit Hours	Prerequisite
203240	Cartography 1	2	None
203241	Cartography 2	2	203340
203242	Weather and Climate	3	None
203243	Introduction to Remote Sensing	3	203240
203245	Computer	3	304100
203254	Geography of Population	3	None
203340	Geomorphology	3	203240
203341	Urban Geography	3	None
203342	Quantitative Geography	2	None
203343	Geography of Industry and Energy	3	None
203343	Introduction to GIS	3	304100
203440	Geography of the Gulf	2	None
203441	Geography of Qatar	2	None
203443	Geography and Research Methodology	3	None

Table 1.

Compulsory Courses (Urban Planning) 19 Credit Hours
Course Number	Course Title	Credit Hours	Prerequisite
203261	Principle of Urban and Regional Planning	3	None
203360	Planning: Theory and Methodology	2	None
203361	Executing Planning and City Management	2	203360
203363	Fieldwork	2	None
203365	History of Planning and Islamic Cities	2	None
203461	Urban Designs	2	203360
203462	Planning Project 1	3	203361
203463	Planning Project 2	3	203462

Table 1.1

Elective Courses (10 Credit Hours)
Course Number	Course Tilte	Credit Hours	Prerequisite
203244	Geography of Agriculture and Food Security	2	None
203246	Topics in the Geography of the Developing World	2	None
203344	Political Geography	3	None
203345	Geography of the Arab Homeland	3	None
203347	Biogeography	3	None
203442	Environment and Pollution	3	None
203444	Geography of Dry Lands	3	None
203446	Development in Qatar and the Gulf	3	None
203448	Geography of Waters	3

Table 2

Ancillary Courses (25 Credit Hours)
Course Number	Course Title	Credit Hours	Prerequisite
306095	Mathematics (nonscientific stream)	3	None
306097	Statistics (nonscientific stream)	3	None
603101	Principles of Economy (nonspecialists)	3	None
208206	Urban Sociology	3	None
501111	Geometric Representations	3	None
504362	Transport Planning	2	None
603202	Comprehensive Economy	2	None
603402	Planning and Economic Development	3	None
603403	Evaluating Projects	3	None

Table 3

Course Distributions

Autumn Semester		Spring Semester
First		Second
210143	English	210243	English
219100	Arabic	219200	Arabic
402111	Islamic Culture		College Requirement
	College Requirement		College Requirement
	College Requirement		College Requirement
	Elective Course	304100	Computer

Third		Fourth
203240	Cartography 1	203241	Cartography 2
203242	Weather and Climate	203243	Introduction to Remote Sensing
203254	Geography of Population	203245	Computer
306095	Mathematics (nonscientific stream)	203261	Principles of Urban and Regional Planning
603101	Principles of Economy (nonspecialists)	306097	Statistics (nonscientific stream)
	Elective Course (Major)	603202	Comprehensive Economy

Fifth		Sixth
203340	Geomorphology	203341	Urban Geography
203342	Quantitative Geography	203343	Geography of Industry
203346	Introduction to GIS	203361	Executing Planning and City Management
203360	Planning:Theory and Methodology	203363	Fieldwork (Summer)
501111	Geometric Representations	203365	History of Planning
603402	Planning and Economic Development		Elective Course (Major)
			Elective Course

Seventh		Eighth
203440	Geography of the Gulf	203441	Geography of Qatar
203462	Planning Project 1	203443	Geography and Research Methodology
603403	Evaluating Projects	203461	Urban Designing
	Elective Course (Major)t	203463	Planning Project 2
	Elective Course (Major)	208206	Urban Sociology
	Elective Course		Elective Course (Major)
			Elective Course

The Department of Geography offers the following courses for other academic programmes of the University:

Course Number	Course Title	Credit Hours	College/Major
203110	Principles of Geography	3	College Requirement (Humanities)
203247	Geography of Europe	3	History / Education
203250	Geography of Asia	3	History / Education
203252	Geography of Africa	3	History / Education
203344	Political Geography	3	History / Mass Communication
203345	Geography of the Arab Homeland	3	History
203346	Introduction to GIS	3	Agriculture
203401	Geography of Qatar and the Arab Gulf	3	Information and Library Science
203440	Geography of the Gulf	2	History
203446	Industrial Development in Qatar and the Gulf	3	Sociology