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2015-16 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2015-16 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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


The Cultural Geography licensure program 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.

Students in the licensure program complete the Secondary Education Minor and choose an additional minor in History, Political Science, or Economics.

Major Program Requirements


The Cultural Geography licensure program requires 38 hours. A Secondary Education minor is required; students choose a second minor from History, Political Science, or Economics.

Required Courses (38 hours)


Curriculum: Global Studies and Cultural Geography, Cultural Geography Licensure


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

Freshman


Subtotal: 30 Hours


Sophomore


Subtotal: 32 Hours


Junior


Subtotal: 31 Hours


Subtotal: 27 Hours


Total hours in program: 120


Academic Map


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

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