Geography Graduate Minor
This program is available at the following location:
- Corvallis
The Geography graduate minor provides students with the skills to describe and explain people’s relationship with their environment and resources; collect and analyze spatial data using remote sensing, and geographic information systems (GIS), web mapping, and geovisualization; and apply this knowledge and skills to geographic problems such as land-use and marine spatial planning, resource evaluation, environmental analysis, global studies, and adaptation to climate change. A student who is primarily interested in Geographic Information Science should pursue the Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science.
Minor Code: 5450
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
MS
- Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
- Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
- Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
- Use terminology and basic principles to describe and explain (a) physical geography, (b) human geography, and (c) geospatial science and technology.
- Apply spatial reasoning and critical thinking to create, synthesize and analyze data; model human-environment interactions; and evaluate contemporary issues in geography.
- Communicate findings and their implications, including ethical aspects, in visual, oral and written form.
PhD
- Produce and defend an original significant contribution to knowledge.
- Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
- Conduct scholarly activities in an ethical manner.
- Use terminology and basic principles to describe and explain (a) physical geography, (b) human geography, and (c) geospatial science and technology.
- Apply spatial reasoning and critical thinking to create, synthesize and analyze data; model human-environment interactions; and evaluate contemporary issues in geography.
- Communicate findings and their implications, including ethical aspects, in visual, oral and written form.