B.A. in Geography

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A major in Geography consists of 11 courses as follows:

Required core courses (6 courses + lab):

• GEO 3013 Intro to Physical Geography (3)
• GEO 3013L Intro to Physical Geography Lab (1)
• GEO 3402 Human Geography (4)
• GEO 3180 Digital Thematic Mapping (4)
• GEO 3164C Quantitative Methods (4)
• GEO 4933 Geography Colloquium (1)
• GEA XXXX One course with GEA prefix (4)
  

Supporting Courses (5 courses):

Majors will select among courses in the Urban and Environmental tracks for their additional coursework. They must take an additional 5 courses, 2 of which may be outside of their track. If more than 1 course is taken outside of the track, 1 of them must be a techniques (elective) course. The following list designates supporting courses by track (or elective technique).

Urban Track Courses:

• GEO 3602 Urban Geography (4)
• GEO 4502 Economic Geography (4)
• GEO 4604 Advanced Urban Geography (4)
• GEO 4700 Transportation Geography (4)
• GEO 4470 Political Geography (4)
• URP 4052 Urban and Regional Planning (4)
• GEO 4421 Cultural Geography (4)
• GEO 4340 Natural Hazards (4)

Environmental Track Courses:

• GEO 4201C Advanced Physical Geography (4)
• GEO 4210 Process Geomorphology (4)
• GEO 4280C Hydrology (4)
• GEO 4340 Natural Hazards (4)
• GEO 4372 Global Conservation (4)
• MET 4002 Climatology (4)
• MET 4010C Meteorology (4)
• GEO 4244 Tropical Meteorology (4)
• GEO 4300 Biogeography (4)

Techniques Courses (electives):

• GEO 4114C Geographic Techniques and Methodology (4)
• GEO 4131C Remote Sensing of the Environment (4)
• GEO 4151C Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (4)

Course Excluded as an Electives for the major:

• GEO 1930 Geography of Current Events (4)
• GEO 2371 Earth System Science (3)

Only 4 combined hours of the following courses may be applied toward the degree:

• GEO 4900 Directed Reading (1-4)
• GEO 4910 Individual Research (1-4)