The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Geography offered by the Department of Geography in the Faculty of Science is a research-intensive program that emphasizes interdisciplinary and comprehensive learning opportunities. The program's objective is to equip students with skills in original thinking, literature synthesis, and scientific communication to pursue professional opportunities in academia or industry.
The program may also be taken as one of the following options:
Currently not offered: Environment option: offered in collaboration with the Bieler School of Environment, the program considers how various dimensions (scientific, social, legal, ethical) interact to define environment and sustainability issues.
Gender and Women's Studies option: gives the opportunity to pursue coursework and research focusing on gender and women's studies, and issues in feminist research and methods.
Neotropical Environment option: is aimed at students who wish to focus their graduate research on environmental issues relevant to the Neotropics and Latin American countries. Students will complete their research in Latin America and their core and complementary courses will be taught in Panama.
Keywords: Political Geography, Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Health Geography, Gender Studies, Environment and Development, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Land Surface Processes, Biogeochemistry, Hydrology, Earth System Science, Climate Change, Sustainability Science, Environmental Management, Geomorphology, Soils, Food
