Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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


Political and Global Affairs  
David Carleton, program coordinator
615-898-2708

pga@mtsu.edu

The Human Geography concentration offers a comprehensive, applicable skill set designed to understand the diversity of cultures and socio-geographic complexities found in human societies. Human 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 Human Geography concentration is valuable as contemporary societies are interacting globally with one another as never before. Human 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 Human Geography, Human Geography, B.S., Academic Map   

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirements 36 hours*
Supporting Courses 7 hours
Professional Skills Cognate 12 hours
Minor 15-18 hours
Electives 6-19 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours will increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the program meet True Blue Core requirements:

Major Requirements (36 hours)


Supporting Courses (7 hours)


Minor (15-18 hours)


Electives (6-19 hours)


Curriculum: Global Studies and Human Geography, Human Geography Concentration


Freshman


Subtotal: 32 Hours


Sophomore


  • Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
  • History and Civic Learning 6 credit hours
  • Human Society and Social Relationships/Electives 6 credit hours
  • Minor courses 6 credit hours
  • Professional Skills Cognate 6 credit hours
  • Scientific Literacy/Elective 4 credit hours

Subtotal: 31 Hours


Junior


  • 3 credit hours
  • Major core courses 12 credit hours
  • Professional Skills Cognate 6 credit hours
  • Elective 3 credit hours
  • Minor course 3 credit hours
  • Supporting course 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 30 Hours


Senior


Subtotal: 27 Hours