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Geography
General
Program Title
Geography
Degree Designation
BA
Award Type
Baccalaureate
Program Level
Undergraduate
Instruction Mode
On Campus
Program Description
This program provides the student with a greater awareness of travel and tourism phenomena and the industry and organizations that support it. Emphasis is placed on increased understanding travel and tourism as a system of interrelated components, which include tourists, destinations, transportation systems, business and the natural environment. Important elements of travel and tourism training include tourism geography, transportation, facilities management, marketing, planning and development and travel operations. To see the on-line university bulletin describing Geography courses and programs go to: http://bulletin.stcloudstate.edu/departments/geog.asp. For information about faculty and activities within the department go to : http:/www.stcloudstate.edu/
Requirements
Free Form Requisites
Credits: 36
Program Requirements (36 credits)
18 credits: course or course, course, course or course, course, course, course.
Electives (18 credits) must be upper division courses--internships are in addition to the 36 credits. A minimum of 3 credits and a maximum of 6 credits (of the 18 upper division) taken from regional courses (GEOG 368, course, course, course, course, course, course); course may be substituted with approval of advisor.
Completion of course with a grade of C- or better fulfills the university's upper division writing requirement.
This major requires either one year in a single foreign language OR a minor.
See program website for additional information.
Program Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Understand and appropriately apply geographic methods
Outcome
Understand globalization processes and effects
Outcome
Understand spatial processes and patterns at the local, national and global scales
Outcome
Understand the key concepts of place, space, landscape and region
Degree Maps or Program Completion Plans
Major Code
1063
Program Code
412