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Environmental Geography/Planner Track
      The environmental track is designed to prepare majors in geography for careers n environmental fields or graduate study that leads to a variety of environmental fields or graduate study that leads to a variety of environmental positions. Students who elect this track will acquire knowledge of the physical and human processes that shape the environment, strategies for analyzing environmental issues, and concepts that underlie strategies for ameliorating environmental problems. The skills acquired in this track will enable students to assess the causes, consequences, and solutions to a wide variety of environmental issues such as water pollution, acid rain, or tropical deforestation.
Geography B.A. Regional Planning B.S.
Departmental Requirements:
  • Cartography I
  • Cultural Geography
  • Economic Geography
  • History of Geography
  • Research Seminar


  • One from the following:
    Geography of:
    • Pennsylvania
    • Latin America
    • Europe
    • Russia and the Soviet Sphere
    • Africa
    • East Asia
    • South and Southeast Asia

  • One of the following:
    • Climatology
    • Physiography

  • Five from the following:
    • Map & Photo Interpretation
    • Intro to GIS
    • Geography of Energy
    • Climatology
    • Physiography
    • Fresh Water Resources
    • Biogeography
    • Remote Sensing
    • Conservation
Requirement Checklist (PDF)
Departmental Requirements:
  • Cartography I
  • Intro to GIS
  • Intro to Planning
  • Planning Methods
  • Planning Design I
  • Planning Design II
  • Research Seminar
  • Land Use Law
  • Land Use Policy
  • Planning Theory


  • Four of the following:
    • Map & Photo Interpretation
    • Remote Sensing
    • Geography of Energy
    • Climatology
    • Physiography
    • Fresh Water Resources
    • Biogeography
    • Conservation
Requirement Checklist (PDF)
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