Study programmes

Graduates in the specialisation of Physical Geography and Geoinformatics are equipped with knowledge for either research or practice in a wide spectrum of the scientific branches of physical geography and geoinformatics, in landscape ecology and the environment and in applied geoinformatics and cartography. Graduates manage basic methods of individual physic-geographical disciplines and geoinformatics including remote sensing, field and laboratory techniques. They can use a range of analytical techniques used in geoinformatics, GIS and geostatistical methods. Graduates are able to work individually and in a multidisciplinary team, solve partial and complex tasks and further increase their professional qualification.
Graduates in the specialisation of Social Geography and Geoinformatics have gained broad knowledge and skills in a wide scale of scientific branches of social geography and geoinformatics. Graduates manage fundamentals of scientific work, critical appraisal of scientific literature, statistical data and map sources. Their map and GIS application skills when analysing mass or individual space data allow them to process various kind of scientific studies aimed at assessment of socio-economic activities in the landscape. Graduates are able to work individually and in a multidisciplinary team, solve partial and complex tasks. They are able to direct the work of multidisciplinary teams and create a base for decision-making activities in the territory.
Graduates in the Physical Geography and Geoinformatics specialisation are prepared for the follow-up master study. Apart from the academic sphere, they can find their employment as specialists with higher professional education in administrative bodies of state environment protection (protected land areas, national parks, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic), in research and resort institutions (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, T. G. Masaryk Water Research Institute, Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, State Administration of Land Surveying and Cadastre), in civil services at various regional levels and within the private sector (firms oriented at geoinformatics, remote sensing techniques and monitoring and assessment of the environment, natural risks, the environmental and landscape analyses, project and consulting firms).
Graduates in the Social Geography and Geoinformatics specialisation are prepared to proceed in follow-up master´s programmes of geography or related scientific branches. In practice they can find their employment as specialists in public administration bodies as well as in the private sector and the non-profit sphere. They are qualified for work in the sphere of regional development and physical planning, territory management, management and planning of spatial processes at local, regional and national levels (Ministry of Regional Development, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, regional authorities, Prague Institute of Planning and Development, firms oriented on territorial analysis, marketing, localisation, network administration, geoinformatics, remote sensing techniques, cartography and others).