Attainment of geographical knowledge is not restricted to the four-walls of the class room. Annual field surveys and excursions are conducted by the Department in different parts of the District, State as well as the country. Reports based on field surveys are prepared by the students under the supervision of the departmental teachers. The reports are later submitted and evaluated by external examiners appointed by the University for the partial fulfillment of the course curriculum.
Field Studies in the past five years* -
* Field surveys could not be conducted during the pandemic. Thus, as per University guidelines project reports based on primary data (collected online) or secondary data were prepared and submitted to the University for evaluation in the End Semester Examination.
Invited lectures on interrelated topics are organized time to time whereby students get to interact with faculty members of other departments of the College as well as from other College(s) and Universit(ies). Students also attend lectures of other departments of our College, on topics related to the course curriculum.
Invited Lectures click on the link
The Department has organized the following events:
UGC-sponsored National Conference on "Challenges & Mitigation of Drought in India" on 9-11 September, 2011
State-level Seminar on "Environmental Issues of Lower Gangetic West Bengal" on 12 September, 2015 (sponsored by College)
Workshop on "Geomorphological Mapping" on 14 March, 2018 (sponsored by College)
National Webinar on "Environment & Sustainability: Land, Water & Ecosystem Perspective" on 31 August, 2020 (in collaboration with the Department of Geography, PRMS Mahavidyalaya, Bankura, West Bengal)
National Webinar on "The Sustenance of the Sustainable through Sustained Judiciary in India" on 5 June, 2021
Training Course on "Spatial Analysis using MS Excel & SPSS" during 4-9 April, 2022
List of Eminent Visitors/Speakers click on the link
The College is a network institute of the Indian Remote Sensing, Dehradun with Dr. Poushali Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, being registered as the local co-ordinator. The Department of Geography has conducted the following outreach programmes of IIRS:
The Department had also locally coordinated the
Students participate enthusiastically in inter-departmental competitions like debate, extempore, wall magazine, singing etc.held during Annual College Programmes. They also contribute literary works to the College magazine 'Jhalak'. Several students are members of the NSS units of the College.