Pitt-Johnstown offers the only geography degree program within the University of Pittsburgh system! Geography is a discipline that integrates the environmental and social sciences. Geography studies location, places, regions, human-environment interactions, and movement. Its tools include cartography and geographic information systems (GIS). On the job, Geography graduates address social, physical, and environmental problems from the global to the local scale. Click here for Pitt-Johnstown Geography alumni jobs. Geography courses address topics that include urban planning, energy consumption, population dynamics, water resources, soil analysis, climate change, natural hazards, and many others. Methods courses emphasize map design, remote sensing, drone technology, and spatial analysis.