Minor in Geography
The Department of Geography offers a minor in geography that will appear on your university transcript. The minor requires 7-8 hours of credit selected from the department’s designated core courses for majors in Geography. This is a selection of 100-level courses that reflects the widely recognized subdivision of academic geography into physical and human geography. In addition, you must select six credit hours from the designated 200 and 300 level human geography courses and another six credit hours from the designated 200 and 300 level physical geography courses. Overall, a total of at least six hours of 300-level coursework must be completed. A comprehensive listing of available courses by category is appended. The minor has no prerequisites.
| Required and Elective Courses |
| Students must take 7-8 hours from the Core Courses, plus six hours from the Human Geography courses – and another six hours from the Physical Geography courses. Six hours of the credit selected from the Human and Physical Geography course clusters must be at the 300 level. The total number of hours required for the minor is 19-20. |
| Core Courses |
| 7-8 credit hours must be selected from the following courses: |
| Geog. 101: Geography of Developing Countries Geog. 102: Weather and Climate Geog. 103: Earth’s Physical Systems, and Geog. 104: Social and Cultural Geography |
| Human Geography |
| 6 credit hours must be selected from the following courses: |
| Geog. 204: Cities of the World Geog. 205: Business Location Decision-Making Geog. 210: Contemporary Social and Environmental Problems Geog. 214: Conservation of Natural Resources Geog. 224: Geographic Patterns of Illinois Geog. 271: Spatial Analysis Geog. 273: Spring Field Course Geog. 277: Interpretation of Aerial Photographs Geog. 284: Population Geography Geog. 290: Individual Study Geog. 291: Honors Individual Study Geog. 294: Special Topics in Social Geography Geog. 310: Geography of Development and Underdevelopment Geog. 325: Historical Geography of American Landscapes to 1880 Geog. 326: Historical Geography of American Landscapes since 1880 Geog. 327: American Vernacular: The Cultural Landscape Geog. 338: Geography of Health Care Geog. 341: Regional Environmental Management Simulation Geog. 353: Geography of the (Former) U.S.S.R. Geog. 355: Geography of Central and Southern Africa Geog. 365: Transportation Systems and Spatial Development Geog. 366: Location of Industry and Other Economic Activities Geog. 367: Dynamic Simulation of Natural Resource Problems Geog. 368: Biological Modeling Geog. 370: Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Geography Geog. 371: Recent Trends in Geographic Thought Geog. 373: Map Compilation and Construction Geog. 377: Introduction to Remote Sensing Geog. 378: Techniques of Remote Sensing Image Analysis Geog. 379: Principles of Geographic Information Systems Geog. 383: Urban Geography Geog. 384: Migration and Spatial Interaction. |
| Physical Geography |
| 6 credit hours must be selected from the following courses: |
| Geog. 203: Regional Analysis of Landforms Geog. 210: Contemporary Social and Environmental Problems Geog. 214: Conservation of Natural Resources Geog. 271: Spatial Analysis Geog. 273: Spring Field Course Geog. 277: Interpretation of Aerial Photographs Geog. 290: Individual Study Geog. 291: Honors Individual Study Geog. 303: Advanced Physical Geography Geog. 304: Soil Geomorphology Geog. 305: Zoogeography Geog. 306: Fluvial Geomorphology Geog. 315: Physical Climatology Geog. 341: Regional Environmental Management Simulation Geog. 367: Dynamic Simulation of Natural Resource Problems Geog. 368: Biologic Modeling Geog. 370: Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Geography Geog. 371: Recent Trends in Geographic Thought Geog. 373: Map Compilation and Construction Geog. 377: Introduction to Remote Sensing Geog. 378: Techniques of Remote Sensing Image Analysis Geog. 379: Principles of Geographic Information Systems |
Note: a minimum of 6 hours of advanced (300) level coursework must be completed.