Geography Minor

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Program
Geography and the Environment
Degree Type
Minor
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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Chair: Nathaniel Weston, Ph.D.
Program Director: Keith Henderson, Ph.D.
Office Location: Suite G61, Mendel Science Center
Telephone: 610-519-3336
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The Department of Geography and the Environment offers B.A. degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies, and a B.S. in Environmental Science. The department also offers a minor in Geography and supports the Sustainability Studies minor. The department’s overarching objective is to integrate the disciplines of geography and environmental science to seek an understanding of human and environmental patterns, the processes that produce those spatial patterns, and salient human and environmental problems that face modern society. The department has two teaching and five research labs; and the department has a full suite of state-of-the-art geospatial software and scientific research equipment.

MINOR: Geography (16 credits)

The geography minor is open to all students and requires 5 courses and 16 credits, and it is designed for students who wish to deepen and broaden their knowledge of the world with a distinctive yet flexible program of courses encompassing the relationship between the environment and society.  The minor enables students to develop a coherent strategy for understanding and explaining the manner in which people and the Earth interact.

  • Courses that fulfill minor requirements may be used to fulfill other requirements (i.e., primary major, core curriculum, minors, concentrations, or free electives).
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Credits
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6
Sub-Total Credits
16