2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

Geography. B.S. major
Planning Emphasis

Required Credits: 57
Required GPA: 2.25

I REQUIRED CORE COURSES

COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• BUAD 2231 Business Statistics I (3 credits)
  or PSY 3401 Basic Statistics for Research (4 credits)
  or STAT 2610 Applied Statistics (4 credits)
• ENGL 2150 Technical Writing (3 credits)
  or ENGL 3150 Writing In The Disciplines (3 credits)
• GEOG 2100 Introduction to Physical Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 2200 Introduction to Human Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 2400 Introduction to Planning (3 credits)
• GEOG 3231 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• GEOG 4190 Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research (3 credits)
• GEOG 4265 Spatial Analysis (3 credits)

II PLANNING EMPHASIS

REQUIRED PLANNING COURSES
COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• GEOG 3232 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• GEOG 3550 Site and Resource Analysis in Planning (3 credits)
• GEOG 3580 Regional Development Planning (3 credits)

PLANNING COURSE SEQUENCE
SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSE SEQUENCES:

NATURAL RESOURCE PLANNING

• GEOG 2300 Economic Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 3532 Political Ecology (3 credits)
• GEOG 3570 Public Lands Planning (3 credits)

URBAN RESOURCE PLANNING

• GEOG 3531 Political Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 3560 Metropolitan Land Use Planning (3 credits)
• GEOG 4120 Urban Geography (3 credits)

REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY ELECTIVES
SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• GEOG 3410 Geography of North America (3 credits)
• GEOG 3800 Regional Geography (1-3 credits)
• GEOG 3810 Geography of Europe (3 credits)
• GEOG 3820 Geography of East, South, and Southeast Asia (3 credits)
• GEOG 3840 Geography of Africa (3 credits)
• GEOG 3850 Geography of the Middle East (3 credits)
• GEOG 3860 Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean (3 credits)

SPATIAL METHODS ELECTIVES
SELECT 2 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• GEOG 3232 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• GEOG 3226 Cartography (3 credits)
• GEOG 3255 Introduction to Remote Sensing (3 credits)
• GEOG 4275 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY ELECTIVE
SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• GEOG 3125 Weather and Climate (3 credits)
• GEOG 3630 Conservation Biology (3 credits)
  or BIOL 3630 Conservation Biology (3 credits)
• GEOG 4130 Biogeography (3 credits)
• GEOG 4140 Landscape Ecology (3 credits)

III CAPSTONE PROJECT

SELECT 1 OF THE FOLLOWING COURSES:

• GEOG 4910 Directed Independent Study (4 credits)
• GEOG 4970 Internship (4 credits)
• GEOG 4990 Thesis (3 credits)