Students majoring in Geography will:
Develop a solid foundation in geographical theory, concepts, and methodology.
Develop geographic literacy, particularly with regard to spatial patterns and processes involved with worldwide diversity, globalization, and sustainability.
Understand historically and geographically contingent political, economic, social, cultural, and physical structures, relationships, interactions, and processes.
Appreciate the diversity and spatial variation of peoples, cultures, ecosystems, and economic and political systems and conditions.
Understand the historically and geographically complex and dynamic relationships and interactions of people and environment, current environmental issues and policy debates, and key conservation, development, and sustainability concepts and approaches.
Gain familiarity with key geographic methods and skills such as fieldwork, cartography, remote sensing, GIS, numeracy, and literacy in geography and related social science and humanities fields.
Develop a background in one or more concentrations, such as environmental geography and sustainability, globalization and international studies, climate and society studies, urban geography, or Geographic Information Science and technologies. And, apply geographical theory, concepts, methods and skills to analysis and problem solving for contemporary issues, planning, and policy-making and for advancing sustainability and social justice.