Geography isn't just about knowing your way around a map. It's about knowing your way around our ever-changing world. The Department of Geography features faculty and students researching and teaching about the mixture of societal and natural forces that characterize places and regions. Such forces include cutting-edge societal issues, land use, conflict, migration, climate change, environmental justice, water resources, and globalization. In addition, geographers synthesize these patterns using spatial data science and cartography. Students in this minor experience the breadth across Geography's subfields: human and biophysical geography and GIScience.

1. Develop critical thinking skills to understand issues facing our world.


2. Understand the interaction between human and biophysical systems.


3. Learn the value of a spatial approach to understand issues shaping our world.


4. Understand how processes at local to global scales interact to shape places.


5. Practice what you learn through hands-on engagement in the field.

Geography

College of Arts and Sciences
541-346-4555
geography.uoregon.edu

• Breadth Requirement: 1 course from each of the following specialties -- GIScience, Biophysical Geography, Human Geography


• Electives: 3 GEOG courses on any topic


• At least 16 credits must be upper-division

Required       12 credits
Electives       12 credits

Total       24 credits

• Federal, city, county, or regional planning agencies


• Environmental consulting firms


• Scientific and research groups


• Technology firms


• Newspapers and other media companies

• Critical thinking and evaluation


• Social science inquiry and research


• Field data collection


• Data analysis and interpretation


• Spatial visualization

• Environmental Science


• Global Studies


• Journalism


• Landscape Architecture


• Political Science

Tykeson College and Career Advising
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advising.uoregon.edu/tykeson

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