Admission
The duration of the educational programme is 2 years. The tuition fee is 500,000 AMD.
The admission exam is conducted orally according to the questionnaire prepared for the admission exam.
Admission Exam Questionnaire
Structure, object, and subject of social geography
Natural conditions and resources; their economic content
Assessment of natural resources
Mutual relationship between the spatial organization of population and economy
Geographic division of labor as a key concept in economic geography: content and results
Territorial organization of labor: essence and types
Territorial structure of society
Economic-geographical position: essence and impact on economic development
Political geography: object, subject, and its place within social geography
Spheres of social life
The state as an object of geographical research
Typology of states
State territory and state borders: their typology
State structure: main characteristics
Form of government: classification of world states by form of government
Monarchical form of government: world monarchies
Republican form of government: world republics
Territorial organization of the state: analysis of main types, federal states of the world
Political map of the world: content and main stages of formation
Geopolitical model of the world
Population migration: essence and significance
Causes and main directions of contemporary international migration flows
Forecasting the prospective population number: forecasting methods
Types of geographical forecasting by content, scale, and time
Geographical forecasting and mathematical methods
Geographical position
Territorial organization of society: territorial structure
Region, regionalization, regionalism
Geographical system, geographical approach
Methodology and methods of scientific research
Methods of geographical research
Descriptive method
Cartographic method
Comparative-geographical method
Quantitative methods
Mathematical methods
Aerospace and remote sensing methods
Geographic information system (GIS) methods
Field research and its role in socio-economic geographical studies
Scientific forecasting in social geography
Relationship of geography with cartography, geoinformatics, and mathematics
General or social geography
Population geography
Economic geography
Geography of natural resources
Social geography
Cultural geography
Historical geography
Political geography and geopolitics
Military geography
General geography
Historical prerequisites of theoretical geography formation
Branches of theoretical geography and their constructive significance
Recommended Literature
Valesyan L.H., Introduction to Social Geography, Yerevan, 1999, 227 pages
Avagyan A., Regional Geography, Part 1, Yerevan, 2006, 334 pages
Muradyan Yu.H., Economic and Social Geography of Foreign Countries, Vol. 1, Yerevan, 1998, 423 pages
Sujyan S.A., Political Geography and Geopolitics, Yerevan, 2019, 228 pages
Contact Emails for Feedback
Faculty of Geography and Geology, YSU: ashxarh@ysu.am
Head of Chair, Associate Professor V. Grigoryan: v.grigoryan@ysu.am
