Geography as a discipline has evolved as a technical and application-oriented science. The wisdom of knowledge related to earth and its environment and application of geospatial technologies viz., GIS, GPS and the survey tools like Total Station, Computational and Statistical packages help to solve environmental, political, economic and other social problems.Established in 2018, the Department of Geography is one of the prominent departments of Govt.
Arts and Science College Tholanur. The Department now offers an Undergraduate course from 2018 and Masters in Geography from 2020 admission onwards. The Department of Geography aims to train the students to get an integral perspective taking both the natural and social sciences into consideration as Geographers are called upon in situation where spatially defined phenomena have to be dealt with.
The department has a well-equipped Cartography and GIS (Geographic Information System) Laboratory. This includes Survey of India Topographic sheets of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Punjab and Haryana on 1:250,000, 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 scales. There are number of survey equipment like chain, plane table, dumpy levels, clinometers, prismatic compasses etc. The GIS lab has 10 PCs with latest configurations with peripherals and an internet connection. The Department acquired modern tools like Mirror Stereoscopes, Digital Handycam, Hand held GPS receivers, Digital Satellite data of IRS LISS IV and LANDSAT satellites.