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Urban and Regional Analysis is a Certificate Program within the Geography Department that leads to a BA Degree in Geography. Completion of the required courses prepares students to deal with a wide variety of economic and social problems in a geographical context. A few examples of these problems are: transportation analysis, land-use analysis, spatial perspectives on health, education, housing, work and welfare, predicting and coping with the consequences of population changes and migration, and urban environmental problems such as brownfields.
Students will gain a broad perspective concerning the evolution and geographic structure of urban places both from formal course work and contact with the faculty. This department is unusually broad in the range of methodologies pursued by the faculty. This provides students with an opportunity to gain a wide range of skills such as spatial statistical analysis, GIS techniques and software, field methods including survey research design and qualitative data collection and analysis,
Upon conclusion of the program, students can choose either to go on to a professional MA degree or directly enter the non-academic job market. Some examples of these non-academic jobs are: planning offices, marketing departments, non-profit organizations, policy research institutions, banks and government agencies.
Entry Requirements: To become an undergraduate in the Geography department a student should have completed TWO Geography courses with a QPA of 2.0 or better and must have an overall (UB) QPA of 2.0 or better. Applicants with an overall UB average of less that 2.0 will not be considered.
Certificate: For those who successfully complete this cluster a special department certificate is awarded indicating that your specialty is in the area of Urban and Regional Analysis.
Grades: It is required that all Geography courses be taken for a letter grade. The only exception is GEO 440, Geography Internship, which must be taken as Pass/Fail (P/F) grading. In addition, all non-departmental courses needed to complete the certificate program must be taken for a letter grade. New majors who have previously taken any required course for S/U grades must petition for restoration of the letter grade to their transcript.
Transfer Credit: Students who wish to transfer credit for a course taken at another institution must provide a transcript AND a course description or outline of the course. This should be presented to the Director of Undergraduate Studies or an Urban and Regional Analysis advisor for consideration and possible approval.
For further information, contact Dr. Peter Rogerson, Director of Undergraduate Studies at 645-0483, or an advisor from the list below.
Advisors - 645-2722
| Jared Aldstadt | 117 Wilkeson | 645-0481 | geojared@buffalo.edu |
Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen |
114 Wilkeson | 645-0478 | geosbs@buffalo.edu |
| Sara Metcalf | 115 Wilkeson | 645-0479 | smetcalf@buffalo.edu |
| Peter Rogerson | 119 Wilkeson | 645-0483 | rogerson@.buffalo.edu |
| Marion Werner | 111 Wilkeson | 645-0475 | wernerm@buffalo.edu |
| Enki Yoo | 112 Wilkeson | 645-0476 | eunhye@buffalo.edu |
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Required Courses for Specialization in Urban & Regional Analysis include Twelve Geography courses and one Economics courses :
GEO 101 - Earth Systems Science I
GEO 102 - Intro. to Human Geography
GEO 103 - Geography of Economic Systems
GEO 120 - Maps and Mapping
GEO 211 - Univariate Statistics in Geography (formerly 410)
GEO 366 - Urban Geography
GEO 367 -Urban Social Geography
GEO 411 - Multivariate Statistics in Geography
GEO 481 - Geographjhic Information Systems
Two Electives from the following:
GEO 412 – Geography of Health
GEO 418 - Population Geography
GEO 419 - Transportation and Society
GEO 425 - Industrail/Business Geogrpahy
GEO 460 - Geography of Development
GEO 482 - Location Analysis
One Earth Systems Sciences course:
GEO 345 - Water Resources
GEO 347 - Climatic Geomorphology
GEO 348 - Landform Development
GEO 350 - Landform Field and Lab Techniques
GEO 356 - Forest Ecology
GEO 470 - Landscape Environment Management
GEO 475 - Landscape Modeling w/ GIS
GEO 479 - GIS & Environmental Modeling
GEO 483 - Remote Sensing
One Economics Course
ECO 181 Macroeconomics OR ECO 182 - Microeconomics
STATS SUBSTITUTION:
If you have already completed one of the following Stats courses, you will not need Geo 211.
Approved subs: PSC408, PSY207, SOC294, STA119, ECO480, EAS308. However, students who take a course outside Geography that is equivalent to GEO211 must complete an additional Geography elective to fulfill the requirement of 12 Geography department courses.