Geography Department:

Project:Establishment of a workshop for designing relief maps

Submitted by: Students of the geography department  

Faculty of Arts

Mansoura University

Project field: Supporting students' talents and creativity

Head of the project: Prof. Dr. Reda Mohammad Sayed Ahmed – Dean of the faculty. 

Project Advisor: Prof. Dr. Magdy Shafiq Sakr – Professor at the geography department in the faculty.

 

Geography Department

 

Registration requirements for master degree in arts	Mission of the geographical program	An abstract about the geography department
Curricula or courses in the pre-master year	Objectives of the geographical program	Study in the department
PhD in arts	Students' evaluation for the member of faculty staff	Scientific content of the courses
Statistic for MA and PhD dissertations	Members of faculty staff and their assistants	Department's library
Department's library	The geographical program development project	Vision of the geographical program

 

 Geography Department

        The Geography Department is one of the leading departments accompanied the establishment of the faculty of Arts. It has two branches: The first branch is the general branch which has been established since the department's establishment and the second one was the maps and survey branch which was established in the academic year 2001/2002. As a response to the development of the study which the department witnessed, a laboratory of maps was established. This laboratory contains a large group of maps and meteorological instruments of climatic and cadastral conditions. Also, it has been provided with the latest equipment through the geographical curricula development project which was presented by HEPPF (Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund). A geographical information systems unit (GIS) was founded according to the decision no. (19) dated 24/1/2007 of the minister of education and the state for scientific research and the president of the supreme council of universities. The study in the department is characterized by field studies of selected areas from Egypt which are carried out by the students of the four batches under the supervision of the faculty members in the department and their assistants to provide students with several skills which cannot be available in the classrooms.

 

 

Date of Establishment:

The geography department was established in the academic year 1979/1980 and its first batch was graduated in 1984.

Heads of the Department since its establishment:

No.	Head of the Department	Period of time	Job Title
	Prof. Dr. Talaat Ismaeel Ramadan	1986: 1987	Supervisor of the department
	Prof. Dr.Mohammad Issa Hariri	1989: 1987	Supervisor of the department
	Prof. Dr.Ahmed Hassan Ibraheem	1989: 1990	Supervisor of the department
	Prof. Dr.Mohammed Hijazi Mohammed	1990: 1993	Supervisor of the department
	Prof.Dr. Abd El-hameed Ahmed Cleo	1993: 1999	Acting head of department
	Prof. Dr.Mohamed Abd El- Aziz El- Hindawi Abd El-Aal	1999: 2003	Tenured assistant professor for the supervision of the geography department
	Prof.Dr. Munir Bassiouny Salem El-hity	2003: 2009	Acting head of department

 

The beginning of the study in the department

The study begins in September of the academic year and ends in May. The study in the geography department is divided into four years through which students study groups of subjects that serve the specialization of geography. Such subjects are natural geography, human geography, environmental materials, applied materials, maps and surveying.  

 

The study in the department is divided into two stages:

The First Stage:

The first stage is the four-year bachelor's degree program. During this stage, the student will study throughout eight school semesters a number of academic courses with an average of 6-8 credits per semester and a number of hours ranging from 19-24 hours per week.

Courses in the bachelor's stage are classified into five categories:

• Specialized courses in the fields of natural geography, human geography and economic geography.
• Assistant courses such as quantitative methods and statistics.
• Courses of maps and surveying.
• Courses of field and applied training.
• History courses concerned with the history of Egypt from the pre- dynastic period to the present.  

The second stage:

The second stage is the stage of the postgraduate studies which is represented in the preliminary year of the master, then master's and doctoral degrees.

The academic content of  courses at  the department:

 

First Batch

No.	First Semester	Second Semester
1-	Geography of structure and topographical relief	Research methods and development of the geographical thought
2-	Human geography	Geography of rural settlements
3-	Economic geography	Agricultural geography
4-	Field study (population and settlement)	Maps and surveying
5-	History of Egypt and the ancient Near East	Arabic language
6-	Modern European language

Second Batch

No.	First Semester	Second Semester
1-	Geography of climate and meteorology	Geography of population
2-	Field study (services)	Geography of minerals and energy
3-	Eurasia	Geography of the Arab World
4-	Natural maps	seas and oceans
5-	Features of Islamic and Medieval European history	Modern European language
6-	Arabic language

Third Batch (A general branch)

No.	First Semester	Second Semester
1-	Geomorphology (Earth surface formations)	Geography of transport and trade
2-	Geography of cities	Maps of economic and population distribution
3-	Geography of the New World	Geography of the dry land
4-	Modern and contemporary history of Europe	Field study (economic)
5-	Geographical texts in modern European language	Geography of soil and plant

 

Third Batch (Maps branch)

No.	First Semester	Second Semester
1-	Geomorphology (Earth surface formations)	Geography of cities
2-	Geography of transport and trade	Maps of economic and population distribution
3-	Geographical texts in modern European language	Statistics and geographical applications
4-	Geological maps	Field study (economic)
5-	Tachometric surveyor (rapid mechanism)	Technical methods
6-	Map projections
7-	Modern and contemporary history of Europe

 

Fourth Batch (A general branch)

No.	First Semester	Second Semester
1-	Natural geography of Egypt	Human geography of Egypt
2-	Regional planning	Geography of Africa and Nile Basin
3-	Political geography	Geography of services
4-	Geography of the environment	Historic geography
5-	Geographical texts in modern European language	Civil geography (natural and environmental)
6-	Modern and contemporary history of Europe

 

Fourth Batch (Maps branch)

No.	First Semester	Second Semester
1-	Natural geography of Egypt	Human geography of Egypt
2-	Regional planning	Geography of Africa and Nile Basin
3-	Geographical texts in modern European language	Topographic contoured maps
4-	Aerial maps	Field Study
5-	Political geography	Applied cartographic project
6-	Maps of climate and weather
7-	Modern and contemporary history of Europe

 

Vision of the Geographical Program:

The geography department in Mansoura faculty of arts seeks to hold a distinguished and prestigious position among the scientific departments in the accredited Egyptian and Arab universities. It also seeks to develop its teaching programs, make progress in what serves the purposes of comprehensive development, disseminate the geographical culture, and contribute with an effective role to serving society issues and preserving the environment.

Mission of the Geographical Program:

The geographical program aims at achieving quality and distinction in education, scientific research and community service through developing the personality of the student, making it capable of creativity and self-learning.

It also aims at presenting advanced teaching programs that help students achieve their academic and personal ambitions in the bachelor and postgraduate stages and make them able to compete regionally and globally.

 

Objectives of the Geographical Program

• Updating and developing the geographical courses and learning techniques and tools that are consistent with the geographical program mission.
•  Developing the student's ability to learn, understand and apply modern scientific curricula and master the basic skills to continue teaching himself by his own.
• Training the student on teamwork, practicing freedom of expression and participation in the intellectual and cultural life of the society.
• Updating and developing the research skills of the faculty members in the department and the assistant staff.
•  Spreading the culture of quality and creating a positive spirit of competition in order to improve performance.
• Meeting the needs of the community through the department's distinguished scientific services and directing the researches to solve the problems of the society and environment.

Fields of work for graduates (the most important of these fields)

• Administrations of planning in the governorate's offices.
• Mining companies and general contracting.
•  Land registration.
•  Water and environmental resources institutions.
• Meteorological agency
• Transport and Communication Agencies
• Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
• Teaching

 Faculty Members and their Assistants:

No.	Name	Job
1.	Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Abd El-Aziz Abu El-Enin	Full professor
2.	Dr. Abd El- Hameed Ahmed Cleo	Assistant Professor
3.	Dr. Magdy Shafiq El-Sayed Saqr	Assistant Professor
4.	Dr. Hoda Mohammed Mahmoud Hassaneen	Assistant Professor
5.	Prof. Dr. Munir Bassiouny El-hity	Assistant Professor (On loan)
6.	Dr. Mervat Ahmed Khallaf	Assistant Professor (On loan)
7.	Prof. Dr.Mosaad Salama Mandour	Assistant Professor(On loan)
8.	Dr. Mustafa Abd El- Aal Tammam	Lecturer
9.	Dr. Mohamed Abd El-Hameed El-Jazairi	Lecturer
10.	Dr. Hwaida Ibraheem Ramadan	Lecturer
11.	Dr. Hussein Saad Hussein El-Deeb	Lecturer
12.	Dr. Mohammed Shawky Mohammed Nassif	Lecturer
13.	Dr. Ramadan Abd El- Hameed Nofal	Lecturer
14.	Dr. Shohdi Abd El- Hameed Al-Khawaja	Lecturer
15.	Dr. Wael Abdullah Ibraheem	Lecturer (On Loan)
16.	Dr. Mohammed Irfan Taha El - Amrawi	Lecturer
17.	Dr. Maha Hassaneen Ahmed	Lecturer

Junior Faculty members

18.	Tolbah Tolbah Borham	Administrator
19.	Mohammed Abd El- Ghani Abd El- Hameed	Administrator

Postgraduate Stage:

Rules and regulations of  Admission:

Registration requirements for Master's degree in Arts

• To enroll in the preliminary year to get the master's degree in Arts, the student must have a Bachelor's degree in Arts with a good grade at least from one of the Egyptian universities.  Or he/she must have an equivalent degree with a good grade at least from one of the other scientific institutes recognized by the supreme council of universities.
• Students who got an excellent grade in the bachelor's degree are exempt from the master preliminary year's courses.
• The duration of the study of the master preliminary year's courses is one year.
• The student is denied entering the master preliminary year's exams if his attendance is less than 75% of each course.
• The master preliminary year's exams are held in May of each year and the second session of them is held in September of the same year. The student is considered successful only if he / she gets at least 70% of the total grade of the course. It is allowed for the student who failed in one subject or two to repeat their exams in September of the same year. If the student fails in more than two subjects, he / she must take the exam in all courses in the following academic year (May session).   
• Students are not allowed to take the master preliminary year's exams beyond two years from the date of enrollment.
• The duration of the written examination in any of the Master's courses is three hours.
• The maximum degree of each academic course is twenty degrees in all departments of the faculty.
• Based on the proposal of the lecturer's course and after the approval of the faculty council, the department's council is allowed to instruct the students to conduct a research in one of its courses and allocate a quarter of the total grade defined for the maximum of the academic course in the exam of the end of the year.
• After passing the examination of the Master preliminary Year, the student will prepare a thesis in the subject of the research approved by the council of the postgraduate Studies and Research Council at the university on the basis of the Department Council's suggestion for at least one year from the date of the Faculty Council's approval to enrollment.
• The thesis supervisor or the supervision committee shall be selected according to the rules of the University Organization Law, its executive regulations and other relevant resolutions.
• The duration of enrollment for the master's degree shall not exceed five years. The faculty council may grant the student another two years for compelling reasons approved by the council on the basis of a report from the supervisor and the approval of the department council.

 

• The formation of the discussion and judgment committee shall be in accordance with the legal conditions stipulated in the law of organizing universities and its executive regulations.

 

• The discussion of the master's thesis shall be public, and it is not allowed for the student who obtained the master's degree of arts with an acceptable grade to enroll to get PhD.

 

• The report of the discussion and the judgment on the thesis committee shall be submitted to the department council, the postgraduate studies committee of the faculty and the faculty council for approval and then submitted to the postgraduate studies council of the university and then the university council for granting the scientific degree. In the certificate of the master's degree, the student's specialization, the subject of his thesis and the grade he received are presented.

 

• The master's degree in arts awards one of the following grades:

 

A - Master of Arts with an excellent grade.

 B - Master of Arts with a very good grade.

C - Master of Arts with a good grade.

D - Master of Arts with an acceptable grade.

 

The academic courses of the preliminary year of the master:

No.	Academic course	Number of theoretical hours
1-	Natural Geography	3
2-	Human Geography	2
3-	Geographical  Research Methods	2
4-	Quantitative Geography	2
5-	Research Auditorium	2
6-	Modern European Language	2
	Number of hours per week	13

 

PhD in Arts

• To enroll to get PhD degree in Arts, the student must have a Master's degree in Arts with a good grade at least from one of the Egyptian universities.  Or he/she must have an equivalent degree with a good grade at least from one of the other scientific institutes recognized by the supreme council of universities.

 

• The supervisor of the dissertation or the committee of the supervision shall be chosen according to the provisions of the universities organization law, its executive regulations and other relevant resolutions.

 

• The PhD student prepares a creative research in a subject approved by the council of the postgraduate studies and research based on the proposal of the department's council and the approval of the faculty council for at least two years from the date of approval by the faculty council to enroll. The enrollment period shall not exceed five years. The faculty council may grant the student another two years for compelling reasons approved by the council on the basis of a report from the supervisor and the approval of the department council.

 

• The formation of the discussion and judgment committee shall be in accordance with the legal conditions stipulated in the law of organizing universities and its executive regulations.

 

• The discussion of the PhD dissertation shall be public.

 

• The report of the discussion and the judgment on the thesis committee shall be submitted to the department council, the postgraduate studies committee of the faculty and the faculty council for approval and then submitted to the postgraduate studies council of the university and then the university council for granting the scientific degree. In the certificate of the PhD degree, the student's specialization, the subject of his dissertation and the grade he received are presented.

 

• The PhD degree in arts awards one of the following grades:

 

A – PhD of Arts with the first class honor.

 B –PhD of Arts with the second class honor.  

C -PhD of Arts.

The University Council awards the Master's and PhD degrees in:

1- Natural geography.

2- Human geography.

3- Maps.

Postgraduate studies' academic courses:

Natural geography

Human geography

Geographical Research Methods

Research auditorium

Quantitative Geography

European language

 

Statistical MA and PhD dissertations

Master's theses awarded by the Faculty of Arts / Geography / Natural Geography

Master's theses enrolled in the Faculty of Arts / Geography / Natural Geography

PhD dissertations awarded by the Faculty of Arts / Geography / Natural Geography

PhD dissertations enrolled in the Faculty of Arts / Geography / Natural Geography

 

 Department's Library

The library was established within the implementation of the activities of the geographical program development project starting from 1/1/2010 and was equipped with a number of Arab and foreign references, journals and geographical researches as follows:

1- Arab geographical references divided as follows:

Natural Geography (122) references, Human Geography (188), Regional Geography (88), Economic Geography (71), Maps (86).

2- Foreign Geographical References (88) References.

3- Scientific Theses (100) Theses.

4-Specialized Geographical Journals (67) Journals.

5- Population Census (25) Census.

6- Geographical maps (60) Maps.

7- Geographical Researches.

8- Geographical Dictionaries (8) Dictionaries.

9- Geographical Atlases (4) Atlases.

Some of these references were purchased from the Cairo International Book Fair; some of them were bought from specialized publishing houses and a large part of them were dedicated to the library.

The opening of the library for the students was already started from Saturday, 10/4/2010.