Roosevelt University - Geography - 04-06 Undergraduate Catalog

Geography
2004-2006 Undergraduate Catalog | Catalogs

The geography curriculum exposes students to a range of disciplines and provides a basis for careers dealing with the crucial problems facing both the world of today and the world of tomorrow. Accelerating population growth, environmental pollution, dwindling resources, and new multinational systems are creating demands for professionals sensitive to the political, economic, and physical geography of this planet. A background in geography provides opportunities in such diverse fields as urban environmental management and planning, government administration, earth sciences, international studies, geographical information systems, and world economics.

Certificate in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computer-based systems that accommodate virtually any type of information about features that are referenced by geographical location. For example, GIS is used to model population growth and distribution, urban development, transportation expansion, manufacturing location, emergency response planning, and environmental impacts.

The use of GIS in government agencies, municipalities, private businesses, and nonprofit organizations has grown dramatically in recent years. People with the skill to use GIS are in demand across a broad range of professions in environmental science, geology, biology, engineering, city and regional planning, marketing, telecommunications, and other industries. Roosevelt’s GIS certificate is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills they need for immediate success in GIS-related research and employment.

Five courses are required to earn the GIS certificate. Three of the courses are required; two are electives selected from the list below. Students must also develop a GIS project portfolio while completing these courses.

Required courses:

Geog/Envs 314	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	3
Geog/Envs 316	Advanced Geographic Information Systems	3
Geog/Envs 380	GIS Workshop/Seminar	3

Electives:

Badm 360	Survey of International Business	3
Biol 315	Ecology	3
Biol 330	Wetlands Delineation	3
Biol 335	Great Lakes	3
Biol 361	Information Technology for the Sciences	3
Chem 373	Environmental Chemistry	3
Cst 263	Visual BASIC Programming I	3
Cst 290	Telecommunication Systems	3
Cst 333	Database Design	3
Cst 365	Web Programming	3
Cst 367	Web Database Applications	3
Econ 322	Environmental Economics	3
Econ 352	Urban Economic Development	3
Envs 201	Hazardous Materials Management	3
Envs 202	Pollution Control	3
Fnsv 350	Risk Management	3
Geog 305	Urban Geography	3
Geog 321	Climatology	3
Geog 344	World Resource Management	3
Geog 350	Problems of the Urban Environment	3
Geol 205	Environmental Geology	3
Mktg 344	Marketing Strategy and Planning	3
Soc 331	Criminology	3
Soc 345	The Study of Population	3
Soc 349	Environmental Sociology	3

Minor in Geography

Students may earn a minor in geography by completing five geography or geology courses to total at least 15 semester hours. Students who have transferred three or more geography or geology courses may earn a minor in geography by completing at least two geography courses at Roosevelt University. Students must complete all courses counted towards the geography minor with a grade of C or higher.