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- 2025 Archives
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Negin Shooraj
- SFU Geography Alumni Sean Orr wins Vancouver council seat in byelection
- Rosemary Collard awarded 2024 SFU Excellence in Teaching Award
- SFU Students Designed and Developed a GeoApp as a Living Wage Calculator
- Undergraduate students team secures third-place in Canada-wide GeoApp competition
- SFU Geography Wins Big at 2025 CAG Annual Conference
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Alex Sodeman
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Tintin Yang
- In Memory of Leonard "Len" Evenden, Professor Emeritus
- Gabrielle Wong awarded 2025 Gordon M. Shrum Medal
- Dr. Bright Addae awarded 2025 Graduate Dean's Convocation Medal
- Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven for Teaching Assistant Excellence Award
- Wildfires to waterways: SFU Geography grad takes action to protect the environment
- Making a difference on and off-campus: student leader and changemaker, Gabrielle Wong, awarded SFU convocation medal
- 2025 Alumni Newsletter
- Kira Sokolovskaia wins the 2025 SFU ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- Mapping a path to City Hall: SFU alumnus shares journey to becoming Mayor of New Westminster
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Alysha van Duynhoven
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Hannah Harrison
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Jade Baird
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Ashley Tegart
- Rethinking the World Map: Dr. Shiv Balram featured on CBC
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Véronique Emond-Sioufi
- SFU Geographers at the 2025 International Cartographic Conference in Vancouver
- When academic curiosity meets environmental purpose: new global environmental systems grad builds interdisciplinary foundation at SFU
- Alysha Van Duynhoven wins the 2025 SFU ECCE in GIS Student Associate Achievement Award
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to David Swanlund
- Congratulations to Our 2025 Warren Gill Award Recipients!
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Baharak Yousefi
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Tara Jankovic
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Christine Leclerc
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Kira Lamont
- Terri Evans: Researching homelessness in suburban communities
- Mapping change for people and the planet
- GIS Month: What is Geographic Information Science (GIS)?
- SFU GIS undergraduate develops real-time earthquake monitoring and hospital alert system
- Physical Geography student returns to SFU, dives into marine ecology, soils and GIS to map a new path forward
- SFU study searches Strava to reveal secrets to happier runs
- 2026 Archives
- SFU study searches Strava to reveal secrets to happier runs
- GIScience Students Become SFU’s First Team at National Geomatics Competition
- 2026 ESRI Canada GIS Scholarship for SFU
- Physical Geography student returns to SFU, dives into marine ecology, soils and GIS to map a new path forward
- SFU GIS undergraduate develops real-time earthquake monitoring and hospital alert system
- GIS Month: What is Geographic Information Science (GIS)?
- Mapping change for people and the planet
- GIS Team Crowned Champions of 2026 National Geomatics Competition
- Second-year MSc Student, Erin Fairley, has made it to the SFU 3MT Finals!
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Brandon Drucker
- In Memory of Ivor Winton
- SFU Students Create GeoApp to Reveal Transit Deserts and Oases Across Metro Vancouver
- Andrew Perkins receives 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award
- Krista Macaulay Receives Prestigious Trudeau Fellowship
- Human Geography Student Guneet Kaur Receives SFU Centre for Dialogue Award for Undergraduate Research
- Dr. Baharak Yousefi awarded 2026 Graduate Dean's Convocation Medal
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Scott Peters
- Gus Schiele wins the 2026 SFU ECCE GIS Scholarship Award
- GES grad maximizes interdisciplinary learning opportunities to tackle global challenges in conservation and sustainability
- Student Stories: Camille Dela Cruz
- Terrestrial ecosystem researcher joins SFU Geography
- Running dry: Cannabis farming is changing streams in California, experts warn
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Erin Fairley
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Lilian Yang
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Stella Harden
- Thesis Defence - Congratulations to Katie Gravestock
- Distinguished Professor Dr. Kirsten Zickfeld recieves highest national academic honour
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Certificates
Enhance your degree - Add a certificate program (or two)!
Certificates are a great way to add a unique flavour to your degree. You can specialize with a certificate in an area related to your major or broaden your studies by taking a certificate in a new subject that sparks your interest.
The Department of Geography offers two certificate programs: the Geographic Information Science (GIS) Certificate and the Certificate in Urban Change. Find out more about these programs below.
Certificate Programs
GIS Certificate
Ever wondered how transit stops are determined or how wildfire evacuation routes are decided? Learn more about the tools behind these decisions and the processes that go into developing them. Build skills in spatial analysis, and modelling and learn how to communicate spatial data and information in digital form as maps, models and graphics.
Urban Change Certificate
Gain a deeper knowledge of cities and urban regions as dynamic, vibrant places that are full of challenges and possibilities. You’ll learn a range of perspectives on how urban places and urban life change in reference to each other. This popular certificate is SFU’s only exclusively urban certificate at the undergraduate level.
Certificate FAQs
- Courses taken as part of a certificate program may also be applied towards a degree program
- Credits applied to one certificate may not be applied to another SFU certificate or diploma
- Completion of pre-requisites for all certificate courses is required
- A cumulative GPA of 2.0 is required on courses used towards the certificate
- Students should consult with a Geography Advisor as early as possible for program admission; formal approval is required before completion of a certificate