The Geography Major consists of four emphases in the Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences, including emphases in: Environment and Society - This emphasis is concerned with human-environmental interactions, including the impacts of human activity on the earth and the consequences of environmental change on society. Students will learn concepts and tools that help them understand and address contemporary environmental issues, and, more importantly, study solutions to some of these issues such as loss of biodiversity, pollution and natural resource degradation, water shortages, food and energy crises, resource conflicts, climate change, devegetation and many other compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. Through their coursework, they will investigate the cultural practices, social structures, and political-economic forces that shape the relationships between society and nature. Human Geography and Global Studies - This emphasis deals with the spatial aspects of human existence: how people and their activities are distributed in space, how they use and perceive space, and how they create and sustain the places that make up the earth’s surface. It focuses on the connections between global and local scales and teaches students how to think geographically about global issues such as poverty, migration, environment and development, and changing technology. Human geography includes urban geography, political geography, demography, economic geography, political ecology, social and cultural geography, feminist geography and many other emerging fields, such as children’s geographies. It encompasses a variety of theoretical approaches and methods. Integrative Geography (this one requires a minor in another department) - This is a comprehensive program in geography, which integrates topics from all of the emphases and requires students to minor in a related discipline. Students in this emphasis will learn about the various fields of geography, including human and physical geography, and its diversity of methods, such as mapping, spatial statistics, modeling, and qualitative data analysis. It allows students to specialize in a given area of interest through electives and to make connections with other disciplines with a minor. Methods of Geographical Analysis - This emphasis focuses on the various techniques and methods used by geographers to represent and analyze geographic information about the natural and social world. These methods include cartography, geographic information systems, remote sensing, spatial statistics, quantitative and qualitative analysis. Students in this emphasis will learn how to apply skills and use contemporary technologies to solve problems and conduct research.

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