Learning Goals:
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Students will demonstrate integrative understanding of social, cultural and human-environmental systems that combine insights from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
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Students will become critical thinkers, handle complexity, and appreciate difference (e.g., spatial, cultural, class, gender, sexual, ethnic, and racial).
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Students will demonstrate readiness for post graduate careers and education.
Assessment Criteria:
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Students will demonstrate the ability to think and read critically and analytically.
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Students will show proficiency in effective writing to support and critique multiple viewpoints.
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Students will exhibit competence in the interpretation of visual texts, media, quantitative data, maps, and landscapes.
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Students will show capacity for conceptualizing social and environmental processes going on at various scales, seeing themselves in relation to and acting on local-to-global dynamics.
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Students will demonstrate the ability to connect theoretical frameworks to real world, hands-on problems.
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Students will present their work effectively to various audiences in written, oral and graphical modes.
MAJOR REQUIREMENTS: Choose Geography or Environmental Policy and Planning Path:
GEOGRAPHY
Foundations (4 credits)
GEO 103S |
Peoples and Environments |
4 |
or |
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GEO 104S |
Global Transformations |
4 |
Concepts, Methods, Professional Development (4 credits)
GEO 200S |
Geographical Imaginations
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4 |
Geospatial Technology/Mapping (4 credits)
Capstone (4 credits)
Geography Concentration: Students work with advisor to choose 12 credits from options below or to design their own concentration. Note that some courses have prerequisites.
Peoples and Environments |
GEO 212S |
Latin America: Peoples & Environments |
4 |
GEO 214S |
Asia: Peoples & Environments |
4 |
GEO 219S |
Geography of Maine |
4 |
GEO 334 |
Political Ecology |
4 |
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Communities and Development |
GEO 310 |
Sustainable Development
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4 |
GEO 320 |
Environment, Economy, Society |
4 |
GEO 343 |
Community Planning
|
4 |
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Nature and Society |
GEO 131S |
Conservation and Environment |
4 |
GEO 231S |
Environmental Issues
|
4 |
GEO 235 |
Physical Geography
|
4 |
GEO 265S |
Climate Change and Society
|
4 |
GEO 325 |
Geography of Health and Disease |
4 |
GEO 340 |
Sustainable Land Use
|
4 |
Plus 12 credits of geography electives
Total Credits for the Major: 40
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND PLANNING
Environmental Policy and Planning Foundations (12 credits)
Concepts, Methods, Professional Development (20 credits)
Geospatial Technology/Mapping (8 credits)
Capstone (4 credits)
EPP 450 |
Research in Environmental Planning
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4 |
Environmental Policy and Planning Concentration: Students work with advisor to choose 12 credits from options below or to design their own concentration. Note that some courses have prerequisites.
Development and Economics
ANT 275S |
Gender, Development, and Globalization |
4 |
BUS 101S |
Business, Society and Sustainability |
4 |
ECO 101S |
Principles of Macroeconomics |
4 |
ECO 102S |
Principles of Microeconomics |
4 |
ECO 228 |
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
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4 |
ECO 260 |
Global Majority |
4 |
ECO 325 |
Public Finance |
4 |
Policy
GEO 334 |
Political Ecology |
4 |
POS 101S |
Introduction to American Government |
4 |
POS 200S |
Public Policy |
4 |
POS 214S |
Law and the Legal System |
4 |
POS 220S |
Environmental Politics |
4 |
POS 351 |
Political Activism and Advocacy Practicum |
4 |
Ecology
Environmental Health
GEO 325 |
Geography of Health and Disease |
4 |
HEA 210 |
Environmental Health |
4 |
HEA 245 |
Nutrition and Ecological Concerns |
4 |
HEA 260 |
Public Health Biology |
4 |
HEA 350 |
Principles of Epidemiology |
4 |
Total Credits for the Major: 56
FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT
One year of one foreign language at the college level or two years of one foreign language at the high school level.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
For specific information about general education requirements and expectations, see the General Education Requirements in the Academic Programs section of this catalog.
MINIMUM TOTAL CREDITS FOR THE DEGREE: 128