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Department of Geography

Concentration in Climate and Environmental Change (Bachelor of Science in Geography)

Students on Summer 2024, Fall 2024, or Spring 2025 requirements GEOGCLCCON

Requirements

The concentration requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
  1. Climate and Environmental Change. 15 credit hours:
    • GEOG-G 107 Physical Systems of the Environment
    • GEOG-G 109 Weather and Climate
    • GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It?
    • GEOG-G 304 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
    • GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: The Distribution of Life
    • GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    • GEOG-G 329
    • GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science, Politics, and Ethics
    • GEOG-G 347 Geographies of Resilience
    • GEOG-G 349 Holocene Paleoclimate
    • GEOG-G 350 Field Methods in Physical Geography
    • GEOG-G 405 Ecological Climatology
    • GEOG-G 407
    • GEOG-G 444 Climate Change Impacts
    • GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
    • GEOG-G 451 Physical Hydrology
    • GEOG-G 452 Tree-Ring Science
    • GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
    • GEOG-G 467 Ecohydrology
    • GEOG-G 478 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems
    • GEOG-X 473 Internship in Geographical Analysis (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • GEOG-X 490 Undergraduate Readings and Research in Geography (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • One (1) additional course from the Geographic Methods course list
  2. 300–499 Level Requirement. 12 credit hours of concentration courses must be at the 300–499 level.
  3. Concentration GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. Concentration GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the concentration—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    2. Concentration Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the concentration.
    3. Concentration Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the concentration must be completed at the 300–499 level.

Concentration Area Courses
  • Courses that may apply toward the Credit Hours and GPA requirements in this academic program include all courses listed on the requirement course lists at the time the course was taken as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent.

Exceptions to and substitutions for concentration requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.