The department of Geographic’s challenges its academic staff,researchers working in the department, postgraduate students,undergraduate students and employees to think critically and independently, develop lifelong learning habits, acquire career skills, embrace diversity and become well-known Geographies in the regional and global community.


Department Vision:
The vision of department of Geographies at Koya University is to achieve national and international recognition in research and training students for meeting the challenging needs of industry and society. The department will become the students’ choice in Kurdistan and the region for seeking a high quality academic program with individualized attention in a high learning environment is also another point we want to reach in future.


Learning Outcomes:
By the time of graduation, Students should have acquired the following knowledge and skills:


General skills:

• Identify, formulate, and solve Geographic problems.
• Understand professional and ethical responsibility.

Analytical Skills:

• An understanding of the basic rules of logic.
• The ability to distinguish a coherent argument from a fallacious one, both in Geographical reasoning and in everyday life.
• An understanding of the role of axioms or assumptions.
• The ability to abstract general principles from example
• Problem-solving and modeling skills (important for all, but especially for majors in Applied Geographies)
• The ability to recognize which real-world problems are subject to Geographical reasoning.
• The ability to make vague ideas precise by representing them in Geographical notation, when appropriate.
• Techniques for solving problems expressed in Geographic’s notation.

Communication skills:

• The ability to formulate a Geographical statement precisely.
• The ability to write a coherent proof.
• The ability to present a Geographical argument verbally.
• Majors in Geographies with a Teaching Concentration should acquire familiarity with techniques for explaining 
• Geographical in an accessible and Geographical correct manner.
• Reading and research skills
• Sufficient experience in Geographical language and foundational material to be well-prepared to extend one’s 
• Geographical knowledge further through independent reading.
• Exposure to and successful experience in solving Geographical problems presenting substantial intellectual challenge.

Who employs Geographies?
Geographical graduates may not always be aware of the various employment opportunities available to them. Although nowadays most of math graduates in our region are trying to be school teachers, i.e. working in Education sector. But there are many other employment opportunities vary from different private sector and governmental scope. Some of the jobs will not directly fit math graduates but do require a strong mathematical background. Therefore, often after a short training course, math graduates will fit a wider range of job opportunities. Below we give some examples of where our graduates went to:

• Ministry of planning .
• Agriculture 
• Tourism and transportation
• Education sector (where most of our graduate students will be school teachers)
• Data Analyst and programmers GIS geographical Information system 
• Different stages of their study).
• Accountant.
• Researcher(s).Finally, we strongly recommend you to visit (Who employs geography? ) where you can see most of the future jobs you might have in or outside the region. 

Language:
Language of education in general at this DGEO is Kurdish.


Study Method:
The method of study varies from assignments, lectures, tutorials, workshops, quizzes, exams, laboratory reports, essays, oral presentations, and poster design.


Duration :
4 Academic year’s full-time study at the Department of Geography at Koya University. Normally an academic year starts in Mid Sept to Mid-June


Program Course Modules thought at the Department:
The following link provide a full list of Course Modules provided at this department. Each course has an standard course module code which is hyper-linked to its dedicated website for full details information on that particular course. Please note that on each course modules website you will also directed to Academic Profile of the lecturer providing the course.