Undergraduate Geography Major & Minor Degrees

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

See for an explanation of Geography curriculum tracks.

The Department of Geography offers a bachelor of arts (BA) degree in geography. The geography BA emphasizes knowledge and awareness of:

the unique contributions of the discipline to understanding the spatial components of problems and the diverse factors relating to human interaction with the environment;
the spatial distributions of physical and human characteristics on the Earth surface, the general patterns these form, and the processes that have created and are changing these patterns;
the major themes of geographical analysis, including absolute and relative location; human and physical characteristics of place; human and environmental relations; movement of people, ideas, and products; and regionalization; and
the general geographical principles of human-environment interaction, global change, and human spatial organization.

The department offers a certificate in hydrology for undergraduate students majoring or minoring in Geography, and a certificate in .