Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2011

• 45. - Social sciences
• 45.07 - Geography and cartography

45.0701 - Geography

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the systematic study of the spatial distribution and interrelationships of people, natural resources, plant and animal life. These programs include courses in historical and political geography, cultural geography, economic and physical geography, regional science, cartographic methods, remote sensing, spatial analysis, and applications to areas such as land-use planning, development studies, and analyses of specific countries, regions, and resources.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • applied geography
  • cultural geography
  • environmental geography
  • geographic sciences
  • geography
  • human geography
  • physical geography
  • social geography

• Exclusion(s)

  • demography(45.0501)
  • geodetic engineering(14.3801)
  • geography teacher(13.1332)
  • geomatics(45.0702)
  • range and pasture management(01.1106)
  • surveying(15.1102)