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Northwestern Michigan College

Program Guide for Geography and Sustainable Planning

First Year, First Semester

Course	Credits
ENG 111	4
MTH 111	4
Social Science elective	3
GEO 105 + 105L	4
Total	15

First Year, Second Semester

Course	Credits
ENG 112	4
MTH 131	4
Humanities elective	3
GEO 109	3
Total	14

Second Year, First Semester

Course	Credits
Elective	3
GEO 108	3
CIT 100	3
Science elective	4
Elective	3
Total	16

Second Year, Second Semester

Course	Credits
Humanities elective	3
GEO 115	3
Elective	3
U.S. Diversity elective	3
Social Science elective	3
Total	15

NOTES:

• Degree offered:  B.A., B.S.  Students seeking the B.A. degree are required to demonstrate third semester proficiency in a foreign language.
• This gude fulfills the Michigan Transfer Agreement (MTA). Humanities electives must be selected from different disciplines.  Social Science elective must be a non-GEO course.  Science electives must be a non-GEO course.  Please check with your community college advisor for additional associate degree requirements.  GVSU will still honor the MACRAO agreement.
• Students should consider a secondary area of study such as a language, natural resources management or other area of interest.  Choose electives from those areas to complement the Geography major.
• U.S. Diversity:  Please see the general education guide for a list of approved courses.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

• The U.S. Department of Labor projects "much faster than average" growth, in excess of 20% or more, in jobs for geographers, geoscientists, cartographers, urban and regional planners, and other geographic professionals, with projected needs of upwards of 15,000 additional employees in each of these career fields between 2008 - 2018.
• Geography tackles issues of local, national, and global significance (e.g., climate change, immigration, economic trade) by attracting scholars drawn to its conceptual frameworks for interdisciplinary and integrative research.

At least three recent global trends can be identified where geographers are making a difference in society and the world:

• Globalization at an increasing pace and scale phenomena that compel greater understanding of the world, places, people, and natural systems that affect us as a planet and as global citizens and consumers.
• Proliferation of geographic technologies, such as GIS, satellite remote sensing and GPS in cell phones and cars, online mapping at your fingertips, cable news reports using spatial visualizations, and many more applications in modern business and government services.
• Trend toward greater interdisciplinarity, espceiall a renewed focus on big questions that matter but that require a breadth of knowledge and multiple fields to tackle.