B.A. in Geography: Focus on Environmental Studies
Learn about environmental processes and functions; explore human-environment interactions across diverse cultural and social contexts.
Focus
A minimum of 12 units from the following:
Core Course:
- GEOG 600: Environmental Problems and Solutions
Two courses from this list:
- GEOG 316: Biogeography
- GEOG 317: Geography of Soils
- GEOG 342: Surface Water Hydrology
- GEOG 422: Environmental Perception
- GEOG 427: Agriculture and Food Supply
- GEOG 642: Watershed Assessment and Restoration
- GEOG 644: Water Quality
- GEOG 647: Geography of Water Resources
- GEOG 651: Bay Area Environmental Issues
- GEOG 652: Environmental Impact Analysis
- GEOG 666: Geography of Garbage: Recycling and Waste Reduction
- GEOG 667: Race, Poverty, and the Environment
- GEOG 668: Politics, Law, and the Urban Environment
One course from the following:
- GEOG 602: Field Methods in Physical Geography
- GEOG 606: Cartography
- GEOG 610: Remote Sensing I
- GEOG 611: Remote Sensing II
- GEOG 620: Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 621: Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Analysis
- GEOG 657: Natural Resource Management: Biotic Resources
Geographic Internship, Geog 688, is strongly recommended.
Courses in other departments on individual advisement
Physical Sciences
- BIOL 313: Principles of Ecology
- BIOL 318: Our Endangered Planet
- BIOL 530: Conservation Biology
- GEOL 305: Energy and Its Environmental Issues