...Geography Minors

Four minors are currently offered through the Department: Generalist Geography, Urban Geography and Planning, the Certificate Program in GIS, and Cities (with Art & Art History). All minors need to register their status with the Department and be assigned a faculty advisor.

I. GENERALIST GEOGRAPHY

Two of the following three Foundation courses are required: Geography: 100 Nature of Geography; 101 Earth’s Physical Landscape; and 170 Earth’s Cultural Landscape. Additionally, two courses selected from the 100 or 200 level, and two courses from the 300 level are required. The latter four are to be selected with the approval of the student’s geography faculty advisor.

 

II. URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND PLANNING

Two Foundation courses are required: Geography: 100 Nature of Geography; 170 Earth’s Cultural Landscape. Additionally, minors should take Geography: 133 Urban Geography; 233 Comparative Urbanism; 333 Urban Planning and Problems; and either 241 GIS I, or 242 GIS II.

 

III. CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS)

The Certificate Program requires 20 hours of instruction. It provides sophisticated education in cartography/GIS and proper training for employment in the geotechnology industry. There are five required courses to complete the certificate:

• GIS I (GEO 241)
• GIS II (GEO 242)
• Remote Sensing (GEO 243)
• Research Techniques (GEO 391)
• Course 5 (This course will be selected in consultation with the student's advisor.  The course, taken at the completion of the program, will provide an opportunity for the student to demonstrate their mastery of the techniques and technologies taught in the other courses in an independent setting. The course may be taken in Geography or in some other discipline, as approved.)

Please contact the Department if you are considering pursuing the GIS Certificate.

IV. CITIES (new program 2006-07)

 The Cities Minor brings together the prominent emphasis on the material landscape and cultural environment of the city evident in geography courses and art and art history courses.  While both art history and geography, obviously, have different kinds of theoretical or historical questions, they nevertheless strongly overlap when considering how the specific geographic spaces of cities unfold as particular spatial and cultural constructs.  Courses in the minor thus explore the variety of ways in which the spaces of cities relates to their historical/geographical materiality.  In this sense, culture is broadly construed to encompass the spatial, aesthetic, linguistic, and other social practices that define the material and phenomenological particularities of cities.

 The Cities Minor requires the completion of six courses (24 credits).  The 4 core required courses (best taken first) are:  GEO 133 Urban Geography, GEO 233 Comparative Urbanism; ART 370 History of Premodern Architecture (Architecture I), and ART 371 History of Modern Architecture (Architecture II).  For the two remaining courses, the students should consult either the Department of Art & Art History or the Department of Geography.

 

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