Description of Program

Geography offers both master's and doctoral degrees in geography with several areas of emphasis available:

• GIScience (remote sensing, GIS, cartography), which involves the interpretation, evaluation, and mapping of environmental information found across the earth's surface.
• Human geography, which focuses on geographical patterns created by human activities at various spatial scales.
• Historical-cultural geography, which continues the tradition of study of the Great Plains including frontier settlement and the impact of the frontier on Native Americans.
• Environmental studies, which involves all aspects of geography and includes studies in tropical deforestation, ecosystem change detection, and human-induced climatic change.

The geography graduate program operates under the aegis of campus-wide faculty experts in geography and related disciplines, including the School of Natural Resources and Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT). This innovative approach gives graduate students the opportunity to study with faculty in several diverse administrative units.