Geography Minor

Minor Requirements

20 credits

Core Courses (12 credits)

ENVS-1050	Introduction to Human Geography	4 credits
ENVS-1060	Physical Geography	4 credits
ENVS-3051	Intro to Geographic Info System (GIS)	4 credits

Environmental Systems Science (4 credits)

Complete one of the following courses and its associated lab.

BIOL-1140	Idaho Natural History	4 credits
ENVS-1001	Environmental Systems Science	4 credits
ENVS-1070	Physical Geology	4 credits

Bridging the Disciplines: Humanities Perspectives (4 credits)

Complete at least one course and any associated lab.

ENVS-3020	Earth's Dynamic Climate System	4 credits
ENVS-3053	Working Landscapes	4 credits
ENVS-3057	Making Maps: Creative Cartography	4 credits
ENVS-3070	Geomorphology	4 credits

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this minor, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate he way that natural physical processes and human activity combine to create the existing and possible future distribution of landscapes;
2. Apply historical and existing cartographic methods to explore, analyze, and display information; and
3. Practice combination of multiple datasets for analysis of physical geographic processes and human activity.