Geography Major Required Courses

Departmental strengths include urban-economic geography, physical-environmental geography, regional geography, and sophisticated geographical methods. The major has the dual aim of providing students with information about the location and distribution of physical-environmental and human-social systems with technical skills and methods for their description and analysis.

1. Foundation Courses. Both of these:

• GEO 101 Global Forces, Local Diversity (3) or
• GEO 111 World Regional Geography: Patterns & Issues (3) and
• GEO 121 Earth's Physical Environments (4)

2. Core Courses. Both of these:

• GEO 211 Global Change (3)
• GEO 241 Map Interpretation (3)

Specialization Paths.

At least 12 hours in one of these paths:

• Comparative Urban Economic
• Global (International) Development
• Environmental Change
• Environment and Society

Required Capstone Course:

• GEO 491 Senior Seminar (4) (Fall semester only)

Workshop, internship, or other fieldwork in geography is strongly encouraged and will count towards required hours with permission of adviser.

Additional geography courses to reach 36 hours in the major, chosen in consultation with the adviser.