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Department of Geography

Concentration in Food and Agriculture (Bachelor of Science in Geography)

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

Requirements

The concentration requires at least 15 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
  1. Food and Agriculture. 15 credit hours:
    • GEOG-G 218 Edible Education
    • GEOG-G 265 The Places and Traces of Food
    • GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: The Distribution of Life
    • GEOG-G 315 Environmental Conservation
    • GEOG-G 352 Food and Poverty in America
    • GEOG-G 357 Urban Alternative Agriculture
    • GEOG-G 359 Fundamentals of Sustainable Agriculture
    • GEOG-G 368 Water in the Midwest
    • GEOG-G 369 The Geography of Food
    • GEOG-G 379 Topics in the Geography of Foods
    • GEOG-G 384 Food, Place and War
    • GEOG-G 391 Geography of International Development
    • GEOG-G 405 Ecological Climatology
    • GEOG-G 417
    • GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
    • GEOG-G 449 Political Ecology
    • GEOG-G 451 Physical Hydrology
    • GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
    • GEOG-G 469 Food and Global Poverty
    • 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.