Human Geography
Policy influence
grads become trusted public voices on housing
Senior leadership
a common trajectory, seeing systems others miss
About Human Geography
Human Geography trains students to read how power moves through place: how cities, policy, colonialism, and racialization shape one another, and how communities build more just and livable worlds. It treats the environment as inseparable from the social forces that decide who a place is built for. Its graduates become the planners, analysts and trusted public voices on housing and social policy and the people who rise into senior leadership because they see systems others miss.
Why SFU Human Geography
Systems thinking
Graduates who rise into leadership because they see interconnections across natural, built, and human systems that others miss.
Careers
Planners, analysts and policy voices shaping housing and social policy at the municipal and provincial level.
Hear from alumni
“SFU has truly fostered my curiosity for learning more about geography and the timely intersectionality between various issues we face today.”
— Bradley Sarandi, SFU Human Geography alumnus
“I’ve learned that issues and topics are far more complex than they might initially seem. A process or event in one place may unfold radically differently in another, and geography seeks to understand and explain those differences”
— Gabrielle Wong, SFU Human Geography alumnus
Environmental work is everywhere. Come see it at our next Discovery Day