About the Program

Environmental geography is a subfield in geography that explores human-environment interactions. The B.S. in Environmental Geography provides students with the opportunity to study how humans impact, manage, and conserve the natural environment, including landforms, water and soil resources, climate, and plant and animal communities. Courses in the program focus on understanding processes and patterns in the natural environment, as well as quantitative analysis and applied, hands-on experiences in the classroom and in the field. The program emphasizes the use of geographic tools, such as Geographic Information Systems(GIS) and remote sensing, to prepare students with the skills to identify, explain, and find meaning in human-environment interactions.

About the Geosciences Department

160 Science and Math Complex
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-6731
Fax: (716) 878-4009
https://geosciences.buffalostate.edu/

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

1. demonstrate the ability to answer questions by synthesizing geographic knowledge (i.e., Six Elements of Geography: A spatial world view; place and regions; physical systems; human systems; environment and society; and the uses of geography)
2. be able to acquire geographic information and assemble ideas and information from geographic literature and scholarship, and from primary and secondary sources.
3. be able to organize geographic information into maps, graphs, and other visual representations and analyze geographic information to seek patterns, relationships, and connections.
4. be able to prepare and deliver clear and convincing written presentations.
5. be able to prepare and deliver clear and convincing oral presentations.

Program Requirements

General Education 23 Requirements

Required Courses (18 credit hours)
GEG 101 WORLD NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS 3
GEG 102 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY 3
GEG 325 MAPS AND MAPMAKING USING GIS 3
GEG 390 QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN GEOGRAPHY AND PLANNING 3
GEG 396 RESEARCH METHODS 3

Select one course from the following:
GEG 300 WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY 3
GEG 359 ARCTIC GEOGRAPHY FROM AN INUIT PERSPECTIVE 3
GEG 360 GEOGRAPHY OF ASIA 3
GEG 362 GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 3
GEG 364 GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE 3

Environmental Geography Electives selected by advisement (12 credit hours)
ENS 300 ENVIRONMENTAL CASE STUDIES
GEG 307 CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
GEG 365 SOIL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
GEG 383 EXTREME WEATHER
GEG 386 WEATHER AND SOCIETY
GEG 418 REMOTE SENSING
GEG 421 WATERSHED ANALYSIS
GEG 423 BIOGEOGRAPHY
GEG 478 GLOBAL CHANGE
GES 307 GEOMORPHOLOGY (4)

General electives selected by advisement. Any three upper-division Geography courses (9 credit hours)

All College Electives 42-48 cr
Total Credit Hours 120