Environmental geography provides students with an opportunity to understand the relationships among place, people, and environment through spatial correlations and mapping, with a particular focus on those aspect of the physical and cultural landscape that address the environment, including water quality, climate, sustainability, cultural perspectives, and economics.

Environmental Geography Minor Requirements

Environmental Geography Minor Courses

Total Credits: 21

Core Requirements (12 credits)

• GEOS 110 Water, Land, and People: An Introduction to Physical Geography (3)
• GEOS 110L Water, Land, and People: An Introduction to Physical Geography Lab (1)
• GEOS 211L Problems in Water, Land, and People (2)
• GEOS 320 Economic Geography (3)
• GEOS 335 Environmental Geography and Conservation (3)

Restricted Electives (9 credits)

Students must take 3 additional credits in physical geography from either:

• GEOS 305 Oceanography (3) OR GEOS 330 Elementary Meteorology (3)

Plus 6 credits from the following:

• GEOS 321 Sustainable Transportation (3)
• ANTH 307 Ecological Anthropology (3)
• ANTH 308 Migration and Human Adaptation (3)
• ANTH 311 American Indians and the Environment (3)
• ANTH 317 Collapse (3)

Student Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to explain and apply concepts of climate, soils, hydrology, and landscape evolution.
• Students will be able to explain the relationships among landscapes, environments, human economies, and cultures and apply that understanding to environmental problem-solving.

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