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Duluth Campus
Geography B.A.
Geography
College of Liberal Arts
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Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2008.
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Required credits to graduate with this degree: 120.
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Required credits within the major: 40.
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Degree: Bachelor of Arts.
This program provides students with a strong interdisciplinary degree that combines human, physical, and technical aspects of the discipline. It trains students for employment in careers requiring knowledge of geography or the use of geographic techniques, and prepares them for graduate studies. Career opportunities for students with a degree in geography include environmental assessment, public and private sector planning, geographic education, travel and tourism, cartography and geo-visualization, business and industrial research, location analysis, community activism, geographic information sciences, and a variety of other activities requiring geographic expertise.
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Admission Requirements
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For information about University of Minnesota admission requirements, visit the
Office of Admissions Web site.
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General Requirements
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All students are required to complete general University and college
requirements including writing and liberal education courses.
For more information about this college's requirements, see
Colleges and
Schools
on the Duluth Web site and the
liberal education program.
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Program Requirements
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Requirements for the B.A. in geography include:
¿ Liberal education requirements
¿ SSP 1000 - Introduction to College Learning (1 cr)
or CLA 1001 - Learning Community Integrative Seminar (1 cr)
¿ Advanced writing requirement: COMP/WRIT 3150 - Advanced Writing: Science or COMP/WRIT 3160 - Advanced Writing: Social Sciences (3 cr)
¿ Foreign language study is recommended, but not required, for all geography students, especially those interested in cultural geography or considering graduate study.
Students interested in the technical/techniques aspects of geography should consult with their adviser about some of the following courses that might support their focus in geography: CS 1121, 1211, 1511, 1521, STAT 1411 and 3611 or SOC 3155, FMIS 3201, 3421.
A minor or second major from another area of study. Lower Division (13 cr)
If a student is a double major in geography and geology, the student may take either GEOG 1414 or GEOL 1110.
If the student takes GEOL 1110 (and not GEOG 1414), the student must take GEOG 4451 in place of GEOG 1414.
If the student takes GEOG 1414 (and not GEOL 1110), the student must take another geology elective in place of GEOL 1110.
GEOG 1304 - Human Geography, LECD CAT06 (3.0 cr)
GEOG 1414 - Physical Geography, LE CAT4 (4.0 cr)
GEOG 2552 - Introduction to Maps and Cartographic Methods, LE CAT2 (3.0 cr)
GEOG 1202 - World Regional Geography, LEIP CAT08 (3.0 cr)
or GEOG 2306 - Environmental Conservation, LE CAT8 (3.0 cr)
or GEOG 2313 - Economic Geography, LE CAT6 (3.0 cr)
Upper Division (27 cr)
Senior Project: Majors complete a senior research project (GEOG 5999) developing ideas generated in advanced geography courses and carried out with the guidance of a faculty member. Students present their projects orally at a department seminar.
GEOG 3532 - Map Design and Graphic Methods (4.0 cr)
GEOG 5612 - Field Techniques (4.0 cr)
GEOG 5803 - Geographic Thought (3.0 cr)
GEOG 5999 - Senior Project in Geography (3.0-4.0 cr)
Electives
In consultation with an adviser, choose courses from at least two of the following groups.
Take 16 or more credit(s) from the following:
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Economic / Political
Take 0 or more credit(s) from the following:
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GEOG 2405 - Geography of Cultural Diversity (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3334 - Urban Geography (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3335 - Urban Planning (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3350 - Geography of Population, Gender, and Migration (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3370 - Geographies of Development (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 4393 - Political Geography (4.0 cr)
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GEOG 4394 - Gender, Space and Culture (4.0 cr)
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Environmental / Physical
Take 0 or more credit(s) from the following:
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GEOG 3401 - Weather and Climate (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3422 - Natural Hazards (4.0 cr)
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GEOG 3461 - Geography of Global Resources (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3481 - Urban Ecology (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 4451 - The Geography of Soils (4.0 cr)
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GEOG 5446 - Water Processes and Management (4.0 cr)
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Spatial / Analytical
Take 0 or more credit(s) from the following:
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GEOG 4563 - Introduction to Geographic Information Science (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 4564 - Laboratory in Geographic Information Science (2.0 cr)
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GEOG 4580 - Introduction to Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (4.0 cr)
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GEOG 5543 - Advanced Cartographic Methods (4.0 cr)
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GEOG 5541 - Environmental Application of GIS (4.0 cr)
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Regional
Take 0 or more credit(s) from the following:
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GEOG 3702 - Geography of the United States and Canada (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3722 - Geography of South Asia (3.0 cr)
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GEOG 3762 - Geography of Europe (3.0 cr)
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