Analysis of the titles of theses and dissertations completed in the geography departments at the University of Baghdad

Abstract

The research deals with the results of theses and university dissertations completed in the geography departments of the colleges (Ibn Rushd Education, Girls Education, Arts) at the University of Baghdad, where the completed research is classified according to its precise specializations to determine the number and percentage that each specialization constitutes of the total geographical dissertations and theses in general, in addition to trying to track the change that occurred during the research period in geographical topics and interests, as well as tracking the development in the extent of employing statistical and technical methods to achieve research objectives, with an attempt to interpret the results, so that the research concludes with a set of conclusions, including noting that geographical dissertations and theses have achieved a great leap in the field of benefiting from the development that has occurred in the field of statistics, geographic information systems and remote sensing, in addition to keeping pace with geography students with emerging topics and problems and trying to address them from a geographical perspective, such as the problems of pollution and climate change, and it was also noted that researchers are not interested in specializing in some branches of geography for many reasons that the researcher tried to list in the text of the research, such as regional geography, historical geography, medical geography and geographical thought.