Geography Major

For more information about the department, honors/high honors, transfer credit, etc., visit the geography department page.

Major Requirements

The requirements for the major are as follows:

GEOG 211 - Geographies of Nature, Economy, Society
GEOG 231 - Geography of the Physical Environment
GEOG 245 - Geographic Information Systems and
GEOG 245L
(completed by the end of the fall semester of the senior year)
GEOG 250 - Research Methods (completed by the end of the fall semester of the senior year)
GEOG 401 - Seminar in Geography
Four additional GEOG elective credits, two of which must be at the 300 level.
Courses taken off-campus cannot be used to fulfill the methods requirement.
In cases where a student is completing a double major and has obtained approval from the geography department chair, one course from the second major may be used to complete the geography major.

To qualify with a major in geography, students must have achieved a minimum GPA of 2.00 over all courses taken in the department.