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Geography
Geography at Carthage
 The study of geography prepares
geography majors for a wide variety of career
opportunities in business, government and education.
Geography enriches the knowledge and career opportunities
for those majoring in other disciplines as well.
At Carthage, geography is a modern applied science
that retains its ancient, traditional role in the
liberal arts. The department continues this tradition
by preparing students for productive and rewarding
careers while instilling the thought processes,
qualities, and habits which are the hallmarks
of a liberally educated person. Geography has a
long history as an environmental science examining
the relationship of humans and their environment.
Geographers seek to:
- Understand why things happen in particular
locations, places, spaces, and regions;
- Identify the physical, social, and natural factors
that make particular locations, places, spaces
and regions unique;
- Explain how space influences human behavior and
the distributions of activities; Investigate
how and why humans create particular kinds
of places and spaces and why human, physical, and natural
phenomena are unevenly distributed;
- Demonstrate how and understand why materials,
phenomena, and resources move across the
surface of the Earth;
- Represent three-dimensional space (i.e.,
reality) through two-dimensional representations
(i.e., maps and images) in order to demonstrate the
locations, patterns, and distributions of phenomena;
- Reveal the spatial dimensions, idiosyncrasies,
and characteristics (i.e., the boundaries,
distributions, patterns, flows, and connections)
of the physical, natural, and human world.
- Geography is the study of the spatial dimensions
of physical and natural phenomena and human
beings existence - in other words, the "wheres" of the physical,
natural, cultural, political, economic, environmental,
etc.
- Geographers make connections between physical,
natural, and social phenomena and the place,
regions, and contexts in which they occur
or across which they are connected.
- Geographers seek to understand the factors
that make places, spaces, and regions unique,
what causes their characteristics to change,
and why they differ from each other
 The career opportunities for geography majors are highly varied and
growing as the field becomes more widely recognized
by persons outside the discipline. The diversity
of opportunity is, in part, revealed by the course
offerings listed. Because of this breadth of opportunity,
geography students' choices of elective courses
outside the major are often as important as their
choices within the major. Students majoring in
geography are urged to achieve competency in mathematics,
statistics and/or computer
science. The
desired level of competency within these disciplines
varies with each student's career goals. Prospective
geography students are urged to discuss career
goals and opportunities with department faculty
and to consult Geography as a Professional Field
published by the Association
of American Geographers.
environmental science environmental science environmental science environment
conservation ecology ecology
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