AASHE Campus Sustainability Hub

Geography offers students the opportunity to study the dynamics of global and local environmental change and to place their local experience in a global perspective. Physical geography involves studying the physical processes, both natural and anthropogenic, that affect the earth’s surface, atmosphere, and biosphere. The department has strengths in the study of climate, climate change, landforms and land surface processes, remote sensing of the environment, and GIS analysis and applications.

Geographic literacy - spatial patterns and processes involved with worldwide diversity, globalization, and sustainability. Processes and interactions - historically and geographically contingent political, economic, social, cultural, socio-ecological, and physical processes and interactions. Diversity and spatial variation - of peoples, cultures, identities, and political, economic, social, socio-ecological, and ecological systems and conditions. People and environment - historically and geographically complex and dynamic interactions, including socio-ecological systems, current environmental issues and policy debates, and key conservation, development, and sustainability concepts and approaches. Concrete applied skills - fieldwork, cartography, remote sensing, GIS, statistical analysis, qualitative data analysis, professional writing, policy-oriented problem solving

• Link: Geography BA