BA Geography and Sustainable Development (Oxford Campus)
Course Overview
The Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Sustainable Development at Miami University integrates social and natural sciences to address urgent global challenges such as climate change, urban planning, and community resilience. This interdisciplinary program emphasizes geospatial mapping, data analysis, and the development of critical research and problem-solving skills. Graduates are prepared for impactful careers in policy, sustainable development, and environmental management.
Key Program Highlights
- Blend of social and environmental sciences
- Focus on geospatial technologies and data science
- Training in critical research and communication skills
- Preparation for careers in policy and sustainable development
- Interdisciplinary approach to global challenges
Course Overview
The Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Sustainable Development at Miami University integrates social and natural sciences to address urgent global challenges such as climate change, urban planning, and community resilience. This interdisciplinary program emphasizes geospatial mapping, data analysis, and the development of critical research and problem-solving skills. Graduates are prepared for impactful careers in policy, sustainable development, and environmental management.
Key Program Highlights
- Blend of social and environmental sciences
- Focus on geospatial technologies and data science
- Training in critical research and communication skills
- Preparation for careers in policy and sustainable development
- Interdisciplinary approach to global challenges
Requirements
Modules
- Global Forces, Local Diversity
- World Regional Geography: Patterns and Issues
- Earth's Physical Environment
- Geographic Perspectives on the Environment
- Environmental Geology
- Global Sustainable Futures
- Mapping a Changing World
- Field Methods for Environmental Scientists
- Geographic Information Systems
- Techniques and Applications of Remote Sensing
- Statistics
- Geography of Urban Diversity
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Conservation
- Geography and Gender
- Political Geography
- Introduction to Environment and Sustainability
- Native American Women
- Indigenous Peoples and Their Sacred Lands
- Issues in the Global South
- Global Development and Inequality
- Women, Gender, and the Environment
- Urban and Regional Planning
- Urban Geography
- Advanced Urban and Regional Planning
- Land Use, Law and the State: Geographic Perspectives
- Global Periphery's Urbanization
- Public Administration
- Fundamentals of Ecology
- Global Perspectives on Natural Disasters
- Surface Water Hydrology
- Watershed Management
- Global Plant Diversity
- Survival on an Evolving Planet
- Water and Society
- Geomorphology
- Principles of Environmental Science
- Environment, Society & Justice
- Environmental Law
- Global Cultural Diversity
- Imagining the Sustainable City
- Geographies of Urban Change
- Citizenship and the City
- Global Poverty
- Advanced Geographic Information Systems
- Python Programming for Geospatial Applications
- GIScience Techniques in Landscape Ecology
- Geographic Information Systems for Criminal Justice
- Geography and Sustainable Development Research Seminar
- Urban Field Experience
