Jun 23, 2024

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:

GS 2010 (HSSR) and GEOG 2000 (HSSR)
PGEO 1030 (Sci Lit)

Major Requirements (36 hours)

GS 2010 - Introduction to Cross-Cultural Experiences 3 credit hours
GEOG 2000 - Introduction to Regional Geography 3 credit hours
NOTE: Both GS 2010 or GEOG 2000 may be counted in the True Blue Core (HSSR).
GEOG 4360 - Cultural Geography 3 credit hours
GS 3000 - Globalization 3 credit hours
GEOG 4572 - Geography Internship 1 to 12 credit hours (3 credit hours required) OR
GEOG 4600 - Field Experience in Geography 3 to 6 credit hours (3 credit hours required)
GS 4990 - Senior Seminar in Global Studies 3 credit hours OR
GEOG 4990 - Senior Seminar in Human Geography 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 3999 - Independent Study in Geography 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 3999 - Independent Study in Geography 3 credit hours
GEOG 4290 - Urban and Regional Planning 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 4540 - Geography of Indigenous Peoples 3 credit hours
GEOG 4572 - Geography Internship 1 to 12 credit hours

Supporting Courses (7 hours)

PGEO 1030 - Physical Geography 4 credit hours
PGEO 4000 - Climatology and Climate Change 3 credit hours OR
PGEO 4380 - Cartography 3 credit hours OR
PGEO 4490 - Remote Sensing 4 credit hours OR
PGEO 4530 - Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours

Professional Skills Cognate (12 hours)

COMM 2140 - Introduction to Organizational Communication 3 credit hours
COMM 3250 - Communication in Nonprofit Organizations 3 credit hours
COMM 3500 - Communication for Organizational Effectiveness 3 credit hours
COMM 4200 - Communication in the Global Workplace 3 credit hours
ENGL 4640 - Advanced Topics in Technical Writing and Communication 3 credit hours
GEOG 4572 - Geography Internship 1 to 12 credit hours
GEOG 4600 - Field Experience in Geography 3 to 6 credit hours
INFS 2400 - Web Development 3 credit hours
JOUR 2710 - Media Writing 3 credit hours
JOUR 2720 - Digital Media Practices 3 credit hours
LEAD 3000 - Leadership Tools and Self-Assessment 4 credit hours
LEAD 3010 - Leadership Skills and Development 3 credit hours
LEAD 4125 - Leadership Development for Women 3 credit hours
MGMT 3610 - Principles of Management 3 credit hours
MGMT 3800 - Managing Change and Conflict in Organizations 3 credit hours
MGMT 3890 - Managerial Decision Making 3 credit hours
PGEO 4530 - Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
PGEO 4560 - Intermediate Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
PGEO 4570 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems 3 credit hours
PHOT 1050 - Basic Digital Photography 3 credit hours
PS 3250 - Public Management 3 credit hours
PS 4275 - NGOs and Non-Profits 3 credit hours
SOC 3040 - Research Methods 3 credit hours
SOC 3050 - Data Analysis 4 credit hours

Minor (15-18 hours)

Electives (6-19 hours)

Curriculum: Global Studies and Human Geography, Human Geography Concentration

Freshman

GEOG 2000 - Introduction to Regional Geography 3 credit hours HSSR
GS 2010 - Introduction to Cross-Cultural Experiences 3 credit hours HSSR
PGEO 1030 - Physical Geography 4 credit hours (Sci Lit)
Written Communication 3 credit hours
Information Literacy 3 credit hours
Non-Written Communication 3 credit hours
Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
Creativity and Cultural Expression 6 credit hours
Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours

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

GS 3000 - Globalization 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

GEOG 4360 - Cultural Geography 3 credit hours
Major core courses 6 credit hours
Minor courses 6 credit hours
Minor/Elective course 3 credit hours
Elective 3 credit hours
GEOL 4572 - Internship in Geology 3 credit hours OR
GEOG 4600 - Field Experience in Geography 3 to 6 credit hours (3 credit hours required)
GS 4990 - Senior Seminar in Global Studies 3 credit hours OR
GEOG 4990 - Senior Seminar in Human Geography 3 credit hours