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Organization, Regulations, and Courses 2012

Geography Requirements

Requirements for the Major

The major in Geography consists of seven courses in addition to the prerequisite courses.

Prerequisite: GEOG 1 or GEOG 3; and any two techniques courses from the following: GEOG 11, GEOG 50, GEOG 51, GEOG 56, GEOG 57, or GEOG 59.

Required courses:

  1. GEOG 90; this serves as the culminating activity in the geography major.
  2. One course from each of the following three themes: Nature-Society, Human-Social Geography, and Physical Geography.

Courses consisting of Nature-Socity Geography Include:

6, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 40, 44, 48

 

Courses consisting of Human-Social Geography include:

2, 9, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 41, 43, 45, 47, 81, 82

 

Courses consisting of Physical Geography include:

4, 5, 31, 32, 33, 35

 

    3. Three additional courses. 

 

Note: Student advising and major card signatures may be obtained from Mona Domosh, Richard Wright or Xun Shi. Any cross-listed courses used for the geography major/minor requires sign-up in the geography enrollment.

 

 

Degree Requirements

Courses consisting of Nature-Society Geography include:

GEOG 6/INTS 16Introduction to International Development (Identical to INTS 016)

GEOG 12Wilderness, Culture and Environmental Conservation

GEOG 13Population, Culture, and Environment

GEOG 14Global Water Resources

GEOG 15Food and Power

GEOG 16Moral Economies of Development

GEOG 35/EARS 71River Processes and Watershed Science

GEOG 44/ENVS 44Environment and Politics in Southeast Asia

Courses consisting of Human-Social Geography include:

GEOG 2/INTS 18Global Health and Society

GEOG 17Geopolitics and Third World Development

GEOG 20Economic Geography and Globalization

GEOG 22Urban Geography

GEOG 23Power, Territoriality, and Political Geography

GEOG 24American Landscapes and Cultures

GEOG 25Social Justice and the City

GEOG 26Women, Gender and Development

GEOG 28/SOCY 48/LATS 40Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity

GEOG 41/WGST 37Gender, Space and Islam

GEOG 43Geographies of Latin America

GEOG 81Field Research in the Czech Republic

GEOG 82Independent Study in the Czech Republic

Courses consisting of Physical Geography include:

GEOG 4New England Landscapes and Environments

GEOG 5Global Climate Change

GEOG 31Forest Geography

GEOG 35/EARS 71River Processes and Watershed Science

NOTE: Student advising and major card signatures may be obtained from Mona Domosh, Richard Wright or Xun Shi. Any cross-listed courses used for the geography major/minor requires sign-up in the geography enrollment.