Planning, Geography, and Environmental Studies

Regional and Community Planning

Launch your career as a planning professional with the Bachelor's in Regional and Community Planning.

Geography – bachelor of Arts

Earn your BA in Geography and experience hands-on field trips along with co-op opportunities to enrich your learning.

Bachelor of Environmental Studies

Prepare to pursue a career in a variety of fields such as agriculture, climate change, land use planning, and environmental communications.

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Applied Geographic Information Systems

Earn an Applied GIS associate certificate with opportunities for hands-on training, co-op placements, and a capstone project.

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What is Planning, Geography, and Environmental Studies?

Our vision

Creating leaders for a resilient future.

Our mission

The department of Planning, Geography and Environmental Studies creates collaborative opportunities for students and community organizations to explore the geography of natural and human environments and plan a resilient future.

Paving the way to environmental and climate change resiliency

Our department offers connected programs united by a common purpose. We're preparing graduates who will help our planet become resilient to environmental change — by thinking, planning, and running programs and projects in our towns, cities, and beyond.

If you study Environmental Studies, you'll learn to track, manage, and protect the air, water, and land. As a human geographer, you'll assess how society impacts the environment and vice versa. And Regional and Community Planning graduates take the latest knowledge about environmental and climate issues and turn them into effective strategies that our communities can implement.

You might also be interested in geoscience

At UFV, you can also study in the Geoscience department, which offers a Bachelor of Science in Physical Geography and a Geographic Information Systems Certificate.

Learn more about geoscience at UFV