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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Geography B.S.
Sample Plan: Geography BS - GIS Interest (4-Year Plan)
Total Credits: 118.0
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 14.0 cr
Freshman Composition :3.0 cr
Freshman Seminar 3.0 cr
LE (Arts/Humanities) :3.0 cr
CLA 1001 1.0 cr
GEOG 1403 - Biogeography of the Global Garden : 4.0 cr : BIOL, ENV
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
GEOG 1301W - Our Globalizing World : 3.0 cr : SOCS, GP, WI
STAT 3011 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis : 4.0 cr : MATH
LE (Literature) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
CLA 1002 1.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
MATH 1151 - Precalculus II : 3.0 cr : MATH
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :3.0 cr
LE (Technology and Society) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
GEOG 3561 - Principles of Geographic Information Science : 4.0 cr
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
GEOG 3401W - Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change : 3.0 cr : ENV, WI
MATH 1271 - Calculus I : 4.0 cr : MATH
LE (Civic Life and Ethics) :3.0 cr
GEOG 3511 - Principles of Cartography : 4.0 cr
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 14.0 cr
ESCI 1001 - Earth and Its Environments : 4.0 cr : PHYS, ENV
Elective :4.0 cr
GEOG 3381W - Population in an Interacting World : 3.0 cr : SOCS, GP, WI
GEOG 3xxx : 3.0 cr
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 16.0 cr
GEOG 4002W - Environmental Thought and Practice : 3.0 cr : WI
HSCI 3224 History of Ecology & Evolution [HP, ENV] 3.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
LE (Historical Perspectives) :3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 15.0 cr
GEOG 3996 - Senior Project Directed Research : 4.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
GEOG 5xxx : 3.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
LE (Diversity and Soc Justice US) :3.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
URBS 3900 Internship 2.0 cr
GEOG 3xxx : 3.0 cr