Overview
The Geography Major consists of ten courses spread across five categories: introductory, methods, breadth, depth, and culminating experience. Introductory courses provide an overview of the field of geography, and ground students in the fundamentals of geography. Methods courses impart the qualitative and quantitative tools that geographers use to explore people and environment in space. Breadth courses expose students to the diversity of geography as a discipline. Depth courses allow students to more substantively engage an area of interest. Finally, the culminating experience synthesizes students' knowledge of geography through deep discussions of key and current literature in a seminar format.
The Department of Geography also offers a Geography Minor, a Geography Major Modified, Major Modification with Geography, an Urban Studies Minor, and a Climate Change Science Minor.