Geography is a problem-solving discipline whose programs and resources provide students with both technical skills and a liberal arts perspective to prepare them for life-long careers.?Many elementary education students pair their major with geography believing that understanding the world is the most important thing an elementary school teacher can know.
The Department of Geography is committed to having students understand and engage the world from a spatial perspective through teaching, research and service. Geography is a problem-solving discipline whose programs and Digital Geography Lab provide our students with both technical skills and liberal arts perspective to prepare them for life-long careers.
The Digital Geography Lab (DGL) is known as one of the best geography university-level computer labs in the country. This unique facility is dedicated to undergraduate and graduate geo-spatial computing, education, and research. The DGL supports the department?s extensive and diverse curriculum with specialized software and hardware. The DGL facilitates collaboration within the department, and is a local focal point for faculty, undergraduate and graduate research.
The Department of Geography?s offerings combine a strong background in the academic tradition of Geography with applied fields such as travel and tourism, sustainability, remote sensing and geographic information systems. In 2006, the United Nation?s World Tourism Organization (WTO) certified the Department?s Tourism education program (BS degree Tourism Concentration) that conforms to and meets the international standards criteria of the WTO.
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