Geography Undergraduate Major

This course focuses on the relationship between society and the environment, including: natural resource use, climate change politics, food and agriculture, energy, water, and sustainability.

Study patterns of the physical phenomena at and near the surface of the earth. Topics covered include surface configuration, climate, vegetation and soil and their areal interrelationships.

An integrative overview of human geography. Topics include human-environmental relations, demographic change, cultural landscape, urban and agricultural land use and economic restructuring.  

Explore the current geological age in which human interaction has been the main driver of environmental and climate change.

Examine the relationship between environmental quality and social justice. You will review case studies drawn from urban and rural examples in both the U.S. and the Third World.

How do the economic and cultural processes of globalization affect different groups of men, women and households? Explore issues of gender and work, development and environmental change, and redefinitions of masculinity and femininity across the globe.

Examine the social, political and environmental aspects of contemporary agri-food systems. Topics covered include industrial and alternative agriculture, fisheries, food policy, hunger, health issues and food justice. The course includes field-based and mapping assignments.

This course serves as an introduction to community-based research methods and participatory GIS, including origins, ethics and challenges. Examine how and why grassroots organizations use GIS and geospatial technologies and conduct a local research project.

This course is an introduction to the use and interpretation of remotely sensed (i.e. satellite) imagery. Students conduct laboratory work and a term project using remotely-sensed images to analyze environmental and social processes.