UNIT – I Geographical Thought        

1. Definition, Nature and Scope of Geography, Branches and Sub-Branches of Geography 2. Basic Concepts of Geography 3. Contribution of Greek and Roman Geographers : Ptolemy and Strabo 4. Arab Geographers5. Development of Geographical Knowledge in Ancient and Medieval India 6. Renaissance Period in Geography : Discoveries and Inventions 7. Contributions of Varenius and Kant 8. German School of Geographical Thought 9. French School of Geographical Thought 10. American School of Geographical Thought 11. British School of Geographical Thought 12. Geography in India 13. Recent Trends in Geography : Positivism, Quantitative Revolution and Models 14. Recent Trends in Geography : Behaviourism and Behavioural Geography, Welfare Geography Radical Geography, Humanistic Geography and Faministic Geography, Bibliography

Practical Geography

Section – I    1. Primary and Secondary Data and their Sources, Methods of Primary Data Collection 2. Classification and Tabulation of Data,

Section – II 3. Frequency Polygon, Frequency Curve and Histogram 4. Measures of Central Tendency,

Section –III 5. Measures of Dispersion : Quartile Deviation, Standard Deviation and Coefficient Variation

Section – IV 6. Coefficient of Correlation : Karl Pearson’s and Spearman’s Methods, Scatter Diagrams.