Degree Programs

The department offers six Undergraduate Degrees (see video):

• Environmental Sustainability (BA/BS)
• Geography (BA/BS)
• Geographic Information Science (BA/BS)

The department now offers accelarated Master's programs with any of our undergraduate degrees and a Masters in Regional and City Planning.

• Environmental Sustainability: Planning & Management, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Sustainability/Master of Regional & City Planning
• Environmental Sustainability: Planning & Management, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sustainability/Master of Regional & City Planning
• Geographic Information Science, Bachelor of Arts in Geographic Information Science/Master of Regional & City Planning
• Geographic Information Science, Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Science/Master of Regional & City Planning
• Geography, Bachelor of Science in Geography/Master of Regional & City Planning
• Geography: Physical & Social Sciences, Bachelor of Arts in Geography/Master of Regional & City Planning

The department also offers four Graduate Degrees (see video) and a Graduate Certificate in Geospatial Technologies (see video).

• Geography and Environmental Sustainability (MA)
• Geography and Environmental Sustainability (MS)
• Online Geospatial Technologies (MS)
• Geography and Environmental Sustainability (PhD)

The department offers a wide array of paradigmatic approaches and topical specialties within the fields of geography, sustainability, and GIS.  With nearly two dozen faculty, expertise on the physical and humanized earth runs the gamut from technical and field-based science to critical-theoretical and geohumanist perspectives.  Here’s some of what we do:   plant biogeography, freshwater ecology, and conservation biology; media and indigenous studies; hydrology, watershed processes, and water resources; political geography, political ecology, and waste politics; modeling LULC change, climate change, and impacts on agriculture; historical and cultural geography; applied climatology, renewable energy, and statistical modeling; GIS, time geography, and animal movements; sustainability of energy and water systems; environmental, energy, and agricultural economics; green community entrepreneurship; urban politics of sustainability practices; place theory; media, popular culture, and geopolitics; socio-ecological systems and climate variability; development geography; critical geography; sociotechnical systems; geohumanities and experimental creative geographies; natural hazards; and visual and mediated geographies.