The Geography/Environmental Studies major develops and deepens students’ understanding of environmental issues; it explores problem-solving approaches from an interactive people/nature viewpoint and involves analysis of social, physical, and biotic environmental systems. The major’s uniqueness lies in its emphasis on its geographical perspective of human impacts on natural systems, as well as of implications of global change on local and regional human systems.
 

Mga Resulta ng Pagkatuto

1. Comprehensive knowledge of the main strands of physical and human geography, including familiarity with major theoretical perspectives

2. Command of various geographical methods and techniques such as remote sensing, cartography, and field methods

3. Familiarity with a range of environmental problems at different geographical scales, their analysis, modeling, and various policy responses to them

4. Skills in collecting and analyzing geographical data

5. Proficiency in written arguments drawing on appropriate sources and methods in the geographical literature