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 645-2722, ext. 53 or an advisor from the list below.

Advisors
Dr. Irene Casas 125 Wilkeson 645-2722 ext. 62 icasas@buffalo.edu
Dr. Meghan Cope 118 Wilkeson 645-2722 ext. 25 mcope@geog.buffalo.edu
Dr. Barry Lentnek 119 Wilkeson 645-2722 ext. 54 geobl@buffalo.edu
Dr. Peter Rogerson 115 Wilkeson 645-2722 ext. 53 rogerson@buffalo.edu
Narushide Shiode 111 Wilkeson 645-2722 ext. 63 nshiode@buffalo.edu
Dr. Jean-Claude Thill 117 Wilkeson 645-2722 ext 24 jcthill@buffalo.edu

Required Courses for Specialization in Urban & Regional Analysis:

_____ GEO 101 Physical  Environmental Geography
_____ GEO 102 Intro. to Human Geography
_____ GEO 103 Geography of Economic Systems
_____ GEO 120 Maps and Mapping
_____ GEO 366 Urban Geography
_____ GEO 410 Univariate Statistics in Geography*
_____ GEO 411 Multivariate Statistics in Geography**
_____ GEO 418 Population Geography  OR  Geo 460 – Geography of Development
_____ GEO 419 Transportation and Society
_____ GEO 425 Industrial Geography

One Elective from the following: Non-Departmental Requirements:
_____ GEO 440 Geography Internship _____ ECO 182 Microeconomics 
_____ GEO 490 Honors Paper _____ CSE 113 Intro to Computer Science OR
_____ GEO 499 Independent Study _____ EAS 140 Engineering Solutions
One GIS/Cartography Geography course: One Physical Geography Course:
____ GEO 381 Cartography ____ GEO 347 Climatic Geomorphology
____ GEO 389 Business Geographics ____ GEO 348 Landform Development
____ GEO 420 Transportation & Spatial Information ____ GEO 350 Landform Field and Lab Techniques
____ GEO 450-453 Special Topics ____ GEO 352 Introduction to Soils
____ GEO 479 GIS & Environmental Modeling ____ GEO 355 Landscape Ecology
____ GEO 481 Geographic Information Systems ____ GEO 356 Environmental Change
____ GEO 483 Remote Sensing ____ GEO 449 Fluvial Geomorphology
____ GEO 485 Cartography and Geo. Visualization ____ GEO 454 Soils Laboratory Methods
____ GEO 486 Spatial Decision – Support Systems ____ GEO 479 GIS & Environmental Modeling
____ GEO 488 GIS Design ____ GEO 483 Remote Sensing
____ GEO 489 GIS Algorithm and Data Structures ____ GEO 444 Earth Systems Science
____ GEO 497 Geostatistics ____ GEO 470 Integrated Environmental Management
____ GEO 475 Landscape modeling with GIS

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*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).
 
 


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