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Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geography

The minimum number of semester credit hours required for the Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography, including the Core Curriculum requirements, is 120. Thirty-nine of the total semester credit hours required for the degree must be at the upper-division level. At least 33 semester credit hours of geography coursework are required to fulfill the geography major. The 33-hour total is considered a minimum, and students are encouraged to deepen and broaden their grasp of their major through careful allocation of their elective semester credit hours. Students are required to complete at least 6 semester credit hours of support work. These courses, which require advance approval from advisors, should serve to introduce students to other social sciences in addition to those entailed in the coursework within students’ major discipline.

All candidates for this degree must fulfill the Core Curriculum requirements and the degree requirements, which are listed below.

Core Curriculum requirements: Students seeking the Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography must fulfill University Core Curriculum requirements in the same manner as other students. The courses listed in the table below satisfy both degree requirements and Core Curriculum requirements; however, if these courses are taken to satisfy both requirements, then students will need to take additional courses in order to meet the minimum number of semester credit hours required for this degree. For a complete listing of courses that satisfy the Core Curriculum requirements see pages 5–9 of this catalog.

Core Curriculum Component Area Courses that Satisfy Core Curriculum and Degree Requirements
Communications English Rhetoric/Composition (6 semester credit hours)
All students must take the following six hours to meet this core requirement:
WRC 1013 Freshman Composition I
WRC 1023 Freshman Composition II
Mathematics Mathematics (3 semester credit hours)
Any three hours listed under this section on the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Natural Sciences Science (6 semester credit hours)
Three hours from Level One and three hours from Level Two will satisfy this core requirement.
Social and Behavioral Sciences United States History and Diversity (6 semester credit hours)
Any six hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Political Science (6 semester credit hours)
POL 1013 Introduction to American Politics, plus three additional hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Social and Behavioral Sciences (3 semester credit hours)
Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Economics (3 semester credit hours)
Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
Humanities & Visual and Performing Arts Literature (3 semester credit hours)
Any three hours listed below under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
The Arts (3 semester credit hours)
Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.
World Society and Issues (3 semester credit hours)
Any three hours listed under this section in the list of core courses will satisfy this core requirement.

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Degree Requirements

  1. 34 semester credit hours in the major, 24 of which must be at the upper-division level:

    1. 19 semester credit hours:

      13 required semester credit hours:

      GRG 2613 Physical Geography
      GRG 2623 Human Geography
      GRG 3314 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
      GRG 3323 Spatial Analysis

      6 additional semester credit hours selected from the following:

      GRG 3113 Geography of the United States and Canada
      GRG 3123 Geography of Latin America
      GRG 3133 Geography of Europe
      GRG 3143 Geography of Mexico
      GRG 3153 Geography of Texas
      GRG 3423 Geopolitics of Russia and Eurasia
      GRG 3433 The Geography and Politics of the Asian Rim

    2. 15 additional semester credit hours of geography electives chosen in consultation with the student’s advisor. A maximum of 6 of these hours, as approved by the student’s advisor, may be applied to the major from selected courses in the following three areas:

      urban and economic studies
      international studies
      earth science and resources

  2. 6 semester credit hours of courses in the social sciences outside the major, chosen with the consent of the advisor

  3. 6 semester credit hours of a single language other than English

  4. 32 semester credit hours of electives

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