Entry Requirements:  To become an undergraduate in the Geography department a student should have completed TWO Geography coursed 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 International Business and World Trade.

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.

Waiver Policy:   A student who applies to our Graduate International Trade Concentration (ITC) program, and who, as an undergraduate student at U.B., has taken GEO 333, and/or GEO 334, and has received a grade of B or better in each course, may waive the corresponding course(s) in the Graduate ITC program.  Such students must then complete GEO539 for 1-2 hours of graduate credit within the first two semesters of entry into the program.

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 International Business and World Trade advisor for consideration and possible approval.

For more information, contact Dr. Peter Rogerson, Director of Undergraduate Studies at 645-2722, ext. 53 or an advisor from the list below.  Office hours will be posted the first week of each semester.

____ GEO 101 Physical Environmental Geography
____ GEO 102 Intro to Human Geography   OR  ____ GEO 103 Geography of Economic Systems
____ GEO 120 Maps and Mapping
____ GEO 330 Dynamics of International Business
____ GEO 333 Bases of World Commerce
____ GEO 334 International Environments and Commercial Problems
____ GEO 410 Univariate Statistics in Geography  (or approved equivalent)*
____ GEO 411 Multivariate Statistics in Geography**
____ GEO 419 Transportation and Society
____ GEO 425 Industrial Geography
____ GEO 460 Geography of Development

Non-Departmental Courses Required:
____ ECO 181 Macroeconomics
____ ECO 182 Microeconomics
____ ENG 101 (or equivalent)
____ One Computer Science Course

Elective Requirements:  TWO of the following:

____ MGA 201 Intro. To Accounting I
____ MGB 301 Organizational Behavior
____ MGF 301 Corporate Finance
____ MGM 301 Principles of Marketing
____ ECO 405 Microeconomic Theory
____ ECO 407 Macroeconomic Theory
____ ECO 435 International Economics
_______________Writing and Communications Courses
_______________Foreign Language Courses

*Approved subs for GEO410:  CEP207, PSC408, PSY207,  SOC294,  STA119, ECO480, EAS308
The Department of Geography requires that all students, regardless of the cluster specialization, complete a minimum of 39 hours in Geography.  Students who take a course outside Geography that is equivalent to GEO410 must complete an additional Geography course to fulfill the 39 hour minimum requirement.

** GEO 411 is offered in the Spring only.  Students should take this course after GEO 410 (or equivalent).
(Note:  Students should be aware that most graduate business schools require the equivalent of Math 121 and 122 to enter their programs.)