Undergraduate Geography Major & Minor Degrees

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

See for an explanation of Geography curriculum tracks.

The Department of Geography offers a bachelor of arts (BA) degree in geography. The geography BA emphasizes knowledge and awareness of:

the unique contributions of the discipline to understanding the spatial components of problems and the diverse factors relating to human interaction with the environment;
the spatial distributions of physical and human characteristics on the Earth surface, the general patterns these form, and the processes that have created and are changing these patterns;
the major themes of geographical analysis, including absolute and relative location; human and physical characteristics of place; human and environmental relations; movement of people, ideas, and products; and regionalization; and
the general geographical principles of human-environment interaction, global change, and human spatial organization.

International Bachelor of Arts (IBA)

The International Bachelor of Arts (IBA) is a joint degree between the University of babyֱ��app Boulder and the University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia. To earn an IBA in Geography, in addition to completing all the current requirements for the BA with a major in Geography at the home institution, students must complete one full-time semester experiential, customized, international learning experience at the non-home institution.