Major Requirements
A minimum of 36 credits are required.
- 9 credits from 450:101 (Earth Systems), 450:102 (Transforming the Global Environment), and 450:103 (Human Geography: Space, Place, and Location
- 3 credits from 450:330 (Geographical Research Methods)
- 3 credits from 450:470 (History and Theory of Geography)
- 12 credits from the student’s track of specialization. Tracks are: Global Culture, Economics, and Society; Environment; or Geographical Techniques. See courses for each track below.
- 6 credits from the other tracks (3 credits from each of the other tracks)
- 3 credits in elective courses (choose any Geography course at 200 level or above)
No more than 3 credits earned at 100- or 200-level courses may be used to satisfy the 12 + 6 credit track specialization
No more than one course with a grade of D may be used in the Geography major.
Depending on the content of the course, Internship Geography (485 and 486), Geographic Problems (491 and 492), Geography honors thesis (495 and 496) may be applied to any track at the discretion of the undergraduate director
Global Culture, Economics, and Society track courses
- 450:205 World Cultural Regions
- 450:222 Cultural Geography
- 450:241 The City: Introduction to an Urban Geography
- 450:250 Cities
- 450:262 Geographic Background to Current World Affairs
- 450:309 Economic Geography
- 450:331 New Jersey
- 450:332 Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- 450:334 Western Europe
- 450:335 Caribbean Borderlands
- 450:336 Latin America
- 450:338 Africa
- 450:341 South Asia and the Middle East
- 450:342 East Asia
- 450:343 Global China
- 450:361 Gender Geographies
- 450:363 Geography of Development
- 450:365 Geographies of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
- 450:405 Political Geography
Environment track courses
- 450:211 Environment, Society and Justice
- 450:213 The Global Climate System
- 450:214 Conservation
- 450:306 Global Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- 450:311 Natural Hazards and Disasters
- 450:313 Climate Change
- 450:331 New Jersey
- 450:360 Cultural and Political Ecology
- 450:370 Climate Change and Society
- 450:402 Field Geography
- 450:404 Advanced Physical Geography
- 450:413 Climate System and Global Climate Change
- 450:417 Coastal Geomorphology
Geographical Techniques track courses
- 450:208 Maps, Power and the Digital World
- 450:320 Spatial Data Analysis
- 450:321 Geographic Information Systems
- 450:322 Remote Sensing
- 450:355 Principles of Cartography
- 450:356 Advanced Cartography
- 450:421 Advanced Geographic Information Systems