Admission and Application Process

Applications are available in the Geography main office, 105 Wilkeson Quad.  To be admitted to the Minor in Geography you must have an overall (UB) QPA of 2.0.  To receive a minor in Geography you must have a QPA of 2.0 in all Geography courses and a QPA of 2.0 overall (UB). You are strongly urged to apply no later that the end of your sophomore year to have sufficient time to compete the required courses. For further information visit the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dr. Peter Rogerson in 115 Wilkeson.

General Geography

____ GEO 101 Physical Environmental Geography

____ GEO 102 Intro to Human Geography  OR  

____ GEO 103 Geography of Economic Systems

____ GEO 120 Maps and Mapping

Five additional GEO courses at the 200, 300 or 400 level

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Physical Geography and Environmental Systems

____ GEO 101 Physical Environmental Geography I

____ GEO 120 Maps and Mapping

Four additional courses from the following:

____ GEO 106 Physical Environmental Geography II

____ GEO 200 The Ocean World

____ GEO 201 Disasters: A Study of Hazards

____ GEO 347 Climatic Geomorphology

____ GEO 348 Landform Development

____ GEO 350 Landform Field and Lab Techniques

____ GEO 352 Introduction to Soils

____ GEO 355 Landscape Ecology

____ GEO 356 Environmental Change

____ GEO 440 Geographic Internship

____ GEO 444 Earth Systems Science

____ GEO 449 Fluvial Geomorphology

____ GEO 454 Soils Laboratory Methods

____ GEO 470 Integrated Environmental Management

____ GEO 475 Landscape Modeling with GIS

____ GEO 479 GIS and Environmental Modeling

____ GEO 483 Remote Sensing

____ GEO 499 Independent Study

International Business and World Trade

____ GEO 103 Geography of Economic Systems

____ GEO 330 Dynamics of International Business

____ GEO 333 Bases of World Commerce

____ GEO 334 Int’l Environments and Commercial Problems

____ GEO 419 Transportation and Society

____ GEO 425 Industrial Geography

Geographic Information Systems and Cartography

____ GEO 120 Maps and Mapping

____ GEO 381 Cartography

____ GEO 481 Geographic Information Systems

____ GEO 485 Cartography and Geographic Visualization

Two courses from the following:

____ GEO 420 Transportation & Spatial Information

____ GEO 450-453 Special Topics in Cartography

____ GEO 479 GIS and Environmental Modeling

____ GEO 483 Remote Sensing

____ GEO 484 GIS applications

____ GEO 486 Spatial Decision- Support Systems

____ GEO 488 GIS Design

____ GEO 489 GIS Algorithms and Date Structures

____ GEO 497 Geostatistics

____ CIE  303  Geodesy, GPS and GIS

Two courses in college math selected from:

____ MTH 121 Survey of Calculus and Its Applications I

____ MTH 122 Survey of Calculus and Its Applications II

____ MTH 141 College Calculus I

____ MTH 142 College Calculus II

Urban and Regional Analysis

____ GEO 102 Introduction to Human Geography

____ GEO 103 Geography of Economic Systems

____ GEO 410 Univariate Statistics in Geography

Four additional courses from the following:

____ GEO 330 Dynamics of International Business

____ GEO 334 Int’l Environments and Commercial Problems

____ GEO 366 Urban Geography

____ GEO 367 Urban Social Geography

____ GEO 418 Population Geography

____ GEO 419 Transportation and Society

____ GEO 425 Industrial Geography

____ GEO 460 Geography of Development