Divided into two main parts, cultural and physical geography, cultural geography explores the characteristics of societies including demographics, religion, economy, and government and how these traits diffuse or contract across space and time. Physical geography examines landforms, climate, flora and faunaalong with natural resources and the processes governing their distributions and use. Explored together in regional geography, the cultural and physical traditions are supplemented by cutting edge geospatial technologies (GIS and GPS), which provides students with skills highly prized in the work force. The Department of Geography offers a full suite of courses covering the cultural, physical, and regional and geospatial branches of geography at the undergraduate and graduate levels.