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.

Academic Map

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

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

Degree Requirements

General Education (41 hours)

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

The following General Education courses are recommended for this major:

GS 2010 and/or GEOG 2000 (Soc/Beh Sciences)

Major Requirements (37 hours)

GEOG 2000 - Introduction to Regional Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 3402 - Cultural Geography Field Course 4 credit hours
GEOG 4360 - Cultural Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 4990 - Senior Seminar in Cultural Geography 3 credit hours
GS 2010 - Introduction to Cross-Cultural Experiences 3 credit hours
GS 3000 - Globalization 3 credit hours

Regional Geography (9 hours)

Select three courses from the following:

GEOG 3120 - Geography of Tennessee and the South 3 credit hours
GEOG 3410 - Cultures and Landscapes of the United States and Canada 3 credit hours
GEOG 3420 - Latin America in the 21st Century: Challenges, New Opportunities 3 credit hours
GEOG 3430 - Geographical Approach to Contemporary Europe 3 credit hours
GEOG 3440 - Geography of Asia and Pacific Rim 3 credit hours
GEOG 3470 - Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa 3 credit hours
GEOG 4500 - Geography of the Middle East and North Africa 3 credit hours

Topical Geography (9 hours)

Select three courses from the following:

GEOG 3720 - Cultural Ecology 3 credit hours
GEOG 4300 - Military and Conflict Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 4325 - Global Geo-Political Economics 3 credit hours
GEOG 4340 - Historical Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 4370 - Urban Geographies: Key Trends, Problems, and Solutions 3 credit hours
GEOG 4470 - Rural Settlement and Agricultural Landscapes 3 credit hours
GEOG 4480 - Recreational and Tourism Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 4540 - Geography of Indigenous Peoples 3 credit hours
GEOG 4572 - Internship in Cultural Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 4772 - Field Course in Historical Geography/Archaeology 3 to 6 credit hours

Minor 1 (15-18 hours)

Minor 2 (15-18 hours)

Electives (6-12 hours)

Total hours in program: 120

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