Undergraduate Geography Major & Minor Degrees
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
SeeÌý for an explanation of Geography curriculumÌýtracks.
The Department of Geography offers a bachelor of arts (BA) degree in geography. The geography BA emphasizes knowledge and awareness of:
- the unique contributions of the discipline to understanding the spatial components of problems and the diverse factors relating to human interaction with the environment; Ìý
- the spatial distributions of physical and human characteristics on the Earth surface, the general patterns these form, and the processes that have created and are changing these patterns;
- the major themes of geographical analysis, including absolute and relative location; human and physical characteristics of place; human and environmental relations; movement of people, ideas, and products; and regionalization; and
- the general geographical principles of human-environment interaction, global change, and human spatial organization.
GeographyÌýMinor
Certificates
The department offers aÌýcertificate in hydrologyÌýfor undergraduate students majoring or minoring in Geography, and a certificate in .Ìý