Geography Major, BA

This major of 65 credits offers students the greatest flexibility and is suited for students with interests outside of the specializations listed below. In consultation with a departmental advisor, students may choose a specialization and design a program of component courses which best fits specific career goals and aspirations. In addition to the core requirements, students pursuing this option must take a set of department-approved electives that includes an upper-division course from each of five subfields. To satisfy the overall major requirement, at least 8 of the credits must be in 400-level geography courses in addition to Geography 489 - Geography Capstone.

Program Learner Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate improved familiarity with the basic geography of the Earth, especially the distribution of countries, major cities, and key physical features.
• Demonstrate improved familiarity with the discipline’s vocabulary, concepts and themes.
• Demonstrate improved critical thinking ability with respect to the interactions of human systems and physical systems, the networks of intra-and inter-national interdependence, and the manner in which human and physical systems modify each other and control the Earth’s surface and resources.
• Effectively prepared by the Department of Geography for future careers.
• Communicate effectively in oral, written and a variety of graphical forms
• Effectively integrate ideas and information from human geography, physical geography, resource geography, regional geography, and techniques courses.