Aliah University Geography Syllabus
 

Can you provide me the syllabus of 5-year Integrated M. Sc. course in Geography offered by Aliah University, Kolkata as my cousin wants to take admission in the course so just wants to have a look at it?

Re: Aliah University Geography Syllabus
 

Aliah University is a state government controlled minority autonomous university in New Town, West Bengal, India which offers multiple modern day professional undergraduate and postgraduate programs in different Engineering, Arts, Science and Management subjects respectively.

Aliah University Geography Syllabus

Module 1: Geotectonics and Geomorphology

UNIT 1: (Geotectonics) 1.1 Geological time scale and origin of the earth 1.2 Concept of Isostasy: Models of Airy, Pratt and Heiskanen. 1.3 Plate Tectonics – As a unified theory of all Global Tectonic Phenomena 1.4 Folds and Faults : Formation and Types UNIT-2: (Geomorphology) 2.1 Weathering, Erosion and Mass-wasting: Impacts on landforms. 2.2 Landforms under geomorphic processes: Fluvial, Glacial, Aeolian and Karst 2.3 Cyclic and Non-cyclic concepts of land form change / evolution: Davis, Penck and Hack 2.4 Landforms on uniclinal, domal, folded and faulted structure Module 2: Geography of Resources UNIT-1: (Resource Perception) 1.1. Concept and Classification of Resource. 1.2 Resource Perception: Economic and Environmental. 1.3 Resource utilization. 1.4 Conservation of resources: General principles and methods.

UNIT-2: (Primary Activities) 2.1 Forest resource: Lumbering. 2.2 Aquatic resource: Fishing. 2.3 Land resource: Agriculture – Intensive Subsistence (Rice), Extensive Commercial (Wheat) and Plantation (Tea) 2.4 Mineral resources: Mining – Metal and Non-metal (Ferrous and Nonferrous), energy resource (Coal and Petroleum and Non-conventional)


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