Students graduating from this program will:

• Understand human-environmental relationships and their spatial dimensions in various geographic areas, from local places to the entire world.

• Integrate knowledge from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences and apply that information to places.

• Know how to design, produce, and interpret maps using modern technology. Evidence of success is provided by performance on our exit examinations, admission to graduate schools, and ultimately the successful careers in geosciences pursued by our graduates.