DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY

Vision

  • The aspiration of Geography programme is to provide students with both the breadth and depth of knowledge in Geography required for solving real-world problems.
  • Geography is a tool to explore the existing natural resources in rational methods and achieve the sustainable economic development.
  • The Department of Geography is committed to outstanding teaching and scholarly activities within the framework of academic freedom and diversity of ideas.
  • The Department of Geography is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and to serving our communities, from local, regional and global level.

Mission 

  • To understand the relationship between man environment.
  • To explore the natural resources by using rational methods for sustainable development The sharing of geographic knowledge and the provision of geographic insights on important societal issues.
  • To work towards making the country’s disaster free though preparedness and mitigation.
  • To enhance the knowledge of students to compete in the competitive examination.
  • To build the employability skill in the younger generation
  • To develop the ethics and social responsibilities in the student community.
  • To make responsible person for protect and save our surrounding environment

Course Outcomes

Course Name: PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA                                     Course Code: 17UGY01

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to demarcate the bordering countries in India. Physical Divisions, River system Types and their divisions from north to south in India 1,2,,4,5,6,8,9, Remember, understand and analyse.
CO2 The student is able to recognize, describe, and identify different types of climate in India, in relation to four seasons and seasonal rainfall distribution in India. 1,3,4,6,7,8,9, Remember, Understand and analyse.
CO3 The student is able to identify recognize, different types of natural vegetations, wild life sanctuaries and biosphere reserves in India 1,2 ,5,6,7, 9, 10 Remember, Understand, recognize and Apply
CO4 The student is able to identify different kinds of soils and their distributions in India 2,3,4,6,7,8,9, 10 Apply, analyze, and evaluate
CO5 The student can be able to identify the various kinds of natural calamities and Precaution, Forecasting methods and planning for controlling measures in India. 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9, 10 Understand, Illustrate, apply and evaluate

Course Name: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA                                   Course Code: 17UGY02

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able recognize the types of agricultural system, practices and methods in India. To identify the different types of crops in order to food, cash and plantation 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember and Understand
CO2 The student is able to recognize, describe, and identify different types of Irrigation systems practices and water related multipurpose projects. 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9 Understand, apply and recognize
CO3 The student is able to recognize, describe, and identify different kinds of minerals resources and their distributions. The significance of energy resources and their availability in India 2,3,4,5,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply and evaluate
CO4 Students can be able to recognize, Identify and distributions of industries in order to Manufacturing, Mineral based, chemical based and Automobile Industries. 2,4,5,6,7,8,9 Apply, analyze, and evaluate
CO5 The student is able recognize, describe, and identify different types of population aspects. In order to understand the types of transport systems and trade. 2,3,4,5,7,8,9, 10 Apply, illustrate analyze, and evaluate

Course Name: GEOMORPHOLOGY                                                                    Course Code: 17UGY03

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to identify the facts about the earth, revolution, interior of earth. Principles and evolution of land and oceans and geological time scale 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember and Understand
CO2 The student is able to recognize describe, and identify the interior parts of earth and to identify the geomorphic movements of the earth, based on these movement creates many landforms. 1,2,3,4,5,6 ,9, 10 Understand, apply and evaluate
CO3 The student is able to recognize, describe, and identify the volcanoes, types distribution and associated landforms 3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply and evaluate
CO4 The student is able to recognize, describe, and identify the types and formation of rocks their distributions. The student will be able to identify distinguish, compare and describe the types of landforms in relation to their processes in a place. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Recognize, analyze, and evaluate
CO5 The student will be able to identify, distinguish, compare, and describe these theories, their processes, and their related characters and mountain building periods. 2,3,4,5,6, 8,9, 10 Apply, analyze, and evaluate

Course Name: CLIMATOLOGY                                                                              Course Code: 17UGY04                              

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand general climate aspects, and to remember the structure and composition of atmosphere, temperature and their affecting factors. 1,2, 4,5,6,7,8,9 Remember, understand, and apply.
CO2 The student is able to understand and describe the dynamics of atmosphere 1,2, 4,5,6,8,9,10 Understand, apply and evaluate
CO3 The student is able to understand and describe air masses and their characteristics and to describe the cyclones formation, types in relation to weather conditions 2, 3, 4,5,6,8,9,10 Understand, apply and evaluate
CO4 The student is able to understand and describe the weather parameters precipitation and distribution of rainfall 1,4,5,6,8,9,10 Apply, illustrate analyze, and evaluate
CO5 The student is able to understand and describe the different climate classifications in regional to climate, changes of climate in relation to global warming and its impacts. 1,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Remember, understand & Apply

Course Name: OCEANOGRAPHY                                                                         Course Code: 17UGY05                                                         

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to describe and understand  the availability of resources salinity and general pattern of marine region and their changes are able to identified 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 Remember, understand, apply, and assess.
CO2 The student is able to describe, understand and identified the ocean morphology, landforms and the controlling factors in ocean 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO3 Students can be able to analyze sea surface temperature fluctuation and characteristics of the global oceans. 1,2,3,5,6,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is able to understand and describe the distribution of salinity in oceans, seas and islands 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student will be able to identify the different types of ocean deposits, sea level changes and their impact of pollutions. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY                                                                 Course Code: 17UGY06

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand and describe the different types of races of man. The students will be aware of the scope and contents of human geography and world human characters 1,2,3,4,5,7,8, 10 Remember and Understand
CO2 Students will have a general understanding of cultural geographic processes, in the scheduled tribes 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, , and assess.
CO3 The student is able to understand the cultivation methods of scheduled tribes in different countries 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is able to describe the different types of languages based on the world religions 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student is able to describe the cultural regions and their major racial groups with conflicts in the world 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY                                                    Course Code: 17UGY07                                    

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 Students can develop an idea about evolution of geographical thinking and disciplinary trends in different schools 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, 9 Remember and assess.
CO2 The student is able to describe the contributions Romans in geographical ideas in various scholars. 1,3,4,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO3 Students can be able to understand the ideas about the origin of universe with help of Indian geographers. 1,2,3,6,7,8,9,10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is able to describe the contributions of Arab geographers in geographical field 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The students will learn about the development of various explorations and discoveries in different scholars 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: POPULATION GEOGRAPHY                                                    Course Code: 17UGY08

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand the nature of population. Know about composition of population, like- age, sex marital status, family, economic composition and language. 1,2,3,5,6,7,8 Remember, understand, apply, and assess.
CO2 The student is able to understand and describe the population density, growth and their components in relation to demographic transition theories. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO3 The student is able to understand and describe the migration types, patterns from local to global level 1,2,3,4,5,6,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is able to understand, describe and evaluate the population theories and their problems in developing and developed countries. 1,3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student is able to understand and describe the literacy levels in different countries 2,3,4,5,6,7,8, 9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: CARTOGRAPHY                                                                             Course Code: 17UGY09

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand and describe the basic idea of map making in relation to scale and projection 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student is able to understand and describe how cartographic techniques are developed form earlier to present day. 1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO3 The student is able to understand and describe how coordinates are distributed, international date line and suitable projection for earth. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is able to understand and describe the map projections and their types are discussed in detail. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student will be able to assess the digital and analog cartography in human communications 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: GEOGRAPHY OF ASIA                                                                Course Code: 17UGYM1

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student will be able to understand, identify and describe the physical divisions and adjacent countries in the continent of Asia 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student is able to understand, identify describe and assess the climatic conditions in Asian countries 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 Understand, and assess.
CO3 The student is able to identify and assess the soil classification and agricultural activities in relation to cultivation methods. 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,10 Understand, and assess.
CO4 Students will be able to identify and recognize the availability of mineral resources, energy sources and major industries. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student is able to understand, identify, describe and assess the population pattern, language, religious, transport and trade in Asian countries. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: NATURAL REGIONS OF THE WORLD                                  Course Code: 17UGYM2   

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to describe the different regions based on climate, vegetation, peoples and economic important. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student is able to describe the tropical regions particularly Savanna region climate, vegetation animals, peoples and economic development 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, Understand and assess.
CO3 The student is able to describe the importance of Arid regions particularly Desert region climate, vegetation and life styles 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is able to assess the Grassland regions in the world and grassland climate vegetation, mode of life and economic significance 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student is able to describe the coldest place of Tundra region and peoples life style and modern developments 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: REMOTE SENSING                                                                     Course Code: 17UGYM3

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student will be able to gain knowledge of remote sensing techniques, historical developments from local to global and their types. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember, and understand
CO2 They can know about concepts, components, development, platforms and types of remote sensing. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand and assess.
CO3 The student is able to describe the types of sensors and their resolution characteristics 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is able to identify and assess the aerial photograph types, characteristics, aerial cameras and related instruments 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student is able to describe, identify and assess the interpretation methods of Aerial photos and Satellite Imageries and equipments 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: GEOGRAPHY FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS-I            Course Code: 17UGYS1 

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand the salient facts about the origin of universe, solar system and different types of landforms with associated features 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student gained knowledge of world major landforms origin, growth and developments and world oceans characteristics. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, analyze and apply
CO3 The student is able to identify and assess the Structure and composition of atmosphere, climatic parameters and global climatic changes 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand and apply
CO4 The student is able to understand the natural disasters like floods, cyclones and earthquakes their measures and management. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, recognize and apply
CO5 The student is able to understand and identify the world biotic regions, ecological aspects in various places and forest management and measures. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, recognize and apply

Course Name: GEOGRAPHY FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS-II              Course Code: 17UGYS2

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand the salient facts of the contribution of geographical ideas in different schools world population characteristics and their importance. 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student is able to remember the agricultural activities in different places in the world and India are also discussed. 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, analyze and apply
CO3 The students will be able to identify and understand the types of minerals, energy resources in different forms and mode of transport systems in economic development 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 Understand and apply
CO4 The student is able to identify the types and distributions of natural vegetations, biospheres and major soils in the world 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, recognize and apply
CO5 The student is able to recognize, identify and understand the physical features, climate, vegetation, soil types and agricultural activities in India and Tamil Nadu 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, recognize and apply

Course Name: TAMIL NADU RIVERS – ENVIRONMENTAL APPROACH  Course Code: 17UGYS3 

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand the divisions of water bodies like, River, Canal and ponds 1,2,3,5,6,8,9,10 Remember and understand
CO2 Students will be able to understand, identify and recognize the status of water availability and watershed management system 1,2,3,5,6,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO3 The student gained knowledge about river pollution due to various chemical industries in Tamil Nadu 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 The student is identifies and assess the risk of pollution in water bodies of Tamil Nadu Rivers 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 Students will be able to remember the environment related laws and apply the government policies in river environment. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: GREEN REVOLUTION                                                                 Course Code: 17UGYS4

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand and identify all aspects of green revolution in Indian agriculture system. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember, understand, apply, and assess.
CO2 The student is understand and recognized the modern agricultural methods and high yield varieties 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO3 The student is able to understand, describe, assess and use the revolution methods of agriculture and crises of Green revolution in India 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO4 Students will be able to identify and assess the high Yield Verities and their impact on life style chances due to agricultural activities. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, apply, and assess.
CO5 The student is able to understand, describe, and assess the significance of organic or natural foods due to agricultural practices. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, apply, and assess.

Course Name: MAP READINGS IN GEOGRAPHY                                        Course Code: 17UGYS5

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand the facts of time zones, international date lines and their locations 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student is able to understand the salient facts and apply skills in grid reference system with regarding to parallels and meridians in the earth 1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9 Understand, analyze and apply
CO3 The students will be able to identify and recognize the weather elements and their functions in different climates. 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, recognize and apply
CO4 Students will be able to identify and assess the different map reading instruments and weather recording instruments from old to modern instruments 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, recognize and apply
CO5 The student is identify and recognize the map producing organizations, satellite imagery producing organizations and land records maintain organizations 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Understand, recognize and apply

Course Name: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL  WARMING              Course Code: 17UGYS6

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand and identify the facts of climate change and global warming related driving forces in the world 1,2,3,4,7,8,9 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student is able to understand, identify, recognize and assess the climatic change in various natural causes in the earth. 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 Understand, analyze and apply
CO3 The student is able to understand, identify, recognize and assess the impact of climatic change in human impact. 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand and apply
CO4 Students will be able to understand, identify and assess the possible consequences of global warming, sea level changes etc.. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Understand, recognize and apply
CO5 The student is identify and recognize the climate change in relation to clearing the forest, soil loss, disappearing the sea, dry lakes and droughts 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 Understand, recognize and apply

Course Name: GEOGRAPHY FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS-I              Course Code: 17UGYN1

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand the salient facts about the origin of universe, solar system, life of stars and black holes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student gained knowledge of world major mountains and their types of formations, world summits 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9 Understand and analyse
CO3 The student is able to identify and assess the major plateaus in the world and their salient features are also identified 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand and recognize
CO4 The student is able to understand the natural and manmade lakes in the world, lakes in India and their economic importance’s 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, recognize and apply
CO5 The student is able to understand and identify the world principal rivers, waterfalls, soils, grasslands and deserts and also understand in India 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, recognize and apply

Course Name: GEOGRAPHY FOR COMPETITIVE  EXAMINATIONS-II              Course Code: 17UGYN2

S. NO. COURSE OUTCOME PSOs Addressed BLOOMS VERB
CO1 The student is able to understand the salient facts about the classification of volcanoes, earthquake world distribution and seismic zones in India 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Remember, and understand
CO2 The student gained knowledge of world major oceans, currents, winds, cyclones and types of precipitations 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand and analyze
CO3 The student is able to identify and assess the distribution of natural vegetation and their types, biosphere reserves and national parks 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand and analyze
CO4 The student is able to understand and identify the distribution of mineral resources, energy resources in the world 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9 Understand, recognize and analyze
CO5 The student is able to understand and identify the world population characteristics, races, mode of transport systems and pipline networks also. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 Understand, recognize and apply