Updated 2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog

Geography, B.S. major
Earth Science Emphasis

Required Credits: 48
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 3231 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• GEOG 3232 Intermediate Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• GEOG 3410 Geography of North America (3 credits)
  or GEOG 3800 Regional Geography (1-3 credits)
  or GEOG 3810 Geography of Europe (3 credits)
  or GEOG 3820 Geography of East, South, and Southeast Asia (3 credits)
  or GEOG 3840 Geography of Africa (3 credits)
  or GEOG 3850 Geography of the Middle East (3 credits)
  or GEOG 3860 Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean (3 credits)
  or GEOG 3870 Regional Geography - World Cities (3 credits)
• GEOG 4265 Spatial Analysis (3 credits)

II EARTH SCIENCE EMPHASIS

REQUIRED EMPHASIS CORE

Complete the following courses:

• GEOG 2100 Introduction to Physical Geography (3 credits)
• GEOG 4130 Biogeography (3 credits)
• GEOG 4140 Landscape Ecology (3 credits)
• GEOG 4910 Directed Independent Study (3 credits)
  or GEOG 4970 Internship (3 credits)
  or GEOG 4990 Thesis (3 credits)
• GEOL 1110 Physical Geology (4 credits)
• GEOL 2110 Mineralogy and Petrology (4 credits)

EARTH SCIENCE ELECTIVES
Select 3 courses from the following, or related upper
division courses as approved in advance by advisor:

• BIOL 3120 Soils (4 credits)
  or GEOL 3120 Soils (4 credits)
• BIOL 3361 Limnology (4 credits)
• BIOL 3730 Plant Diversity (4 credits)
• BIOL 3840 Wetlands Ecology (3 credits)
• BIOL 4623 Forest Ecology (4 credits)
• ENVR 3040 Environmental Economics (3 credits)
• ENVR 3600 Environmental Justice and Sustainability (3 credits)
• GEOG 3125 Weather and Climate (3 credits)
• GEOG 3630 Conservation Biology (3 credits)
  or BIOL 3630 Conservation Biology (3 credits)
• GEOL 1120 Historical Geology (4 credits)
• GEOL 3211 Environmental Hydrology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3212 Hydrogeology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3400 Glacial and Pleistocene Geology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3500 Topics in Paleontology (3 credits)
• GEOL 3600 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation (3 credits)
• GEOL 3700 Environmental Geophysics (3 credits)
• GEOL 4300 Global Environmental Change (3 credits)

III SPATIAL METHODS ELECTIVES

Select 1 of the following courses:

• GEOG 3226 Cartography (3 credits)
• GEOG 3255 Introduction to Remote Sensing (3 credits)
• GEOG 4190 Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research (3 credits)
• GEOG 4275 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)
• STAT 3610 Time Series Analysis (3 credits)