Geography Undergraduate Program
Overview
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What is Geography and Geography/Environmental Studies?
Geography
Designed to develop and deepen your ability to interpret and explain the occurrence,
distribution, and interrelationships of the earth's physical and social elements.
Geographers examine - where are things located; why are they located in that manner;
and how their location affects them? The geographer's challenge is to provide
continuing interpretation of the constantly changing physical and human landscapes
of the world.
Geography/Environmental Studies
Intended to develop and deepen your understanding of environmental issues. It
emphasizes a systems approach to gaining an understanding of major environmental
problems facing our society and the world at large. You will gain an understanding
of geographical perspectives of human impacts on natural systems, and on the
implications of environmental change on local, regional and global human systems.
Geography is an especially attractive major for liberal arts students as well as
those who want to specialize in areas such as international issues, development,
the environment and remote-sensing GIS. Its body of theory and its methodologies
provide ideas and techniques applicable to a wide range of questions about our
environment; it also provides both the regional and world perspectives required
of responsible citizens.
The department offers two undergraduate majors that lead to the Bachelor of Arts
degree:
- the major in Geography and
- the major in Geography/Environmental Studies.
The majors prepare students for employment opportunities in both the public and
private sectors (in environmental analysis, assessment, and management, map making
and remote sensing, regional analysis, economic and urban spatial analysis, and
teaching) and for graduate study in law, management, urban and regional planning,
education, other biophysical and social sciences, and applied programs, as well
as in Geography.
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