Courses

This highly structured program requires 51 hours of study. Thirty-six hours are specifically prescribed and cover basic content areas of physical and social geography. You will be required to take cartography, geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensing as part of the 33-hour requirement. The remaining 15 hours are selected advanced courses in systematic and regional geography and GIS.

REQUIRED COURSES: 33 hours

Course #	Course Title	Course Credit
GEOG 101	Earth, Sea, and Sky: A Geographic View	3
GEOG 120	Economic Geography and Contemporary Issues	3
GEOG 121	Geography of the Cultural Environment	3
GEOG 150	Global Geography	3
GEOG 230	Elementary Meteorology	3
GEOG 240	Map Reading and Interpretation	3
GEOG 250	Spatial Analytical Methods in Geography	3
GEOG 265	Introduction to GIS	3
GEOG 340	Cartography and Visualization of Spatial Data	3
GEOG 342	Introduction to Remote Sensing	3
GEOG 470	World Political Geography	3

ELECTIVE COURSES: 15 hours 
6 hours from:

Course #	Course Title	Course Credit
GEOG 330	Weather Analysis	3
GEOG 331	Global Climatology	3
GEOG 344	Atmospheric Hazards	3
GEOG 344	Advanced GIS Analysis	3
GEOG 450	Mesoscale Meteorology	3

6 hours from:

Course #	Course Title	Course Credit
GEOG 261	Tourism Systems	3
GEOG 320	Ethnic Geography	3
GEOG 321	Urban Geography	3
GEOG 323	Tourism and Geography of Food	3
GEOG 423	Population Geography	3

6 hours from:

Course #	Course Title	Course Credit
GEOG 350	Geography of the United States and Canada	3
GEOG 351	Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean	3
GEOG 353	Geography of Indiana	3
GEOG 354	Geography of Asia	3
GEOG 356	Geography of Russia and Its Neighbors	3
GEOG 357	Geography of Europe	3