Global Studies and Cultural Geography, Cultural Geography Concentration, B.S.

Global Studies and Cultural Geography Program
615-494-7744
James Chaney, program director
James.Chaney@mtsu.edu

The Cultural Geography concentration offers a comprehensive, applicable skill set designed to understand the diversity of cultures and socio-geographic complexities found in human societies. Cultural geographers seek to understand how humans uniquely create, manipulate, and adapt to the places they inhabit by examining natural environments, cultural practices, and economic and political systems. Knowledge gained from the Cultural Geography concentration is valuable as contemporary societies are interacting globally with one another as never before. Cultural geographers identify and comprehend these changes and find solutions to a variety of sociocultural problems taking place. This marketable skill set is attractive to a wide range of employers in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.

Major Program Requirements

The Cultural Geography concentration requires 37 hours, including the six required Global Studies/Geography courses listed below (19 credit hours). The remaining 18 hours are selected from regional and topical GEOG courses (see below). Two minors are required.

Curriculum: Global Studies and Cultural Geography, Cultural Geography Concentration

Curricular listings include General Education requirements in Communication, History, Humanities and/or Fine Arts, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social/Behavioral Sciences categories.

Freshman

ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing 3 credit hours (Comm)
COMM 2200 - Fundamentals of Communication 3 credit hours (Comm)
GEOG 2000 - Introduction to Regional Geography 3 credit hours
GS 2010 - Introduction to Cross-Cultural Experiences 3 credit hours
Mathematics 3 credit hours
Humanities and/or Fine Arts 6 credit hours
Natural Sciences 8 credit hours

Subtotal: 32 Hours

Sophomore

ENGL 2020 - Themes in Literature and Culture 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
ENGL 2030 - The Experience of Literature 3 credit hours (Hum/FA) OR
HUM 2610 - Foreign Literature in Translation 3 credit hours (Hum/FA)
Social/Behavioral Sciences 6 credit hours
Minor courses 9 credit hours
Electives 6 credit hours
Choose 6 hours from:
HIST 2010 - Survey of United States History I 3 credit hours
HIST 2020 - Survey of United States History II 3 credit hours
HIST 2030 - Tennessee History 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours

Junior

GS 3000 - Globalization 3 credit hours
GEOG 3402 - Cultural Geography Field Course 4 credit hours
Major core courses 12 credit hours
Minor courses 12 credit hours

Subtotal: 31 Hours

Senior

GEOG 4360 - Cultural Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 4990 - Senior Seminar in Cultural Geography 3 credit hours
Major core courses 6 credit hours
Minor courses 15 credit hours

Subtotal: 27 Hours

Total hours in program: 120

Academic Map

Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Global Studies and Cultural Geography, Cultural Geography, B.S., Academic Map