JOINT DEGREE WITH GEOGRAPHY LEADING TO THE
MASTER OF ARTS IN GEOGRAPHY and MASTER OF URBAN PLANNING
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
A. Total Combined Program
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For MUP |
For MA in Geography |
Total |
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Required Courses for |
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Combined Degree |
21 cr |
7 cr |
28 cr |
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Concentration, Elective & Thesis |
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Courses For Combined Program |
18 cr |
15 cr |
33 cr |
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TOTAL |
39 cr |
22 cr |
61 cr |
B. Urban Planning Courses Required of all Joint Degree Candidates
Required Courses: |
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UBPL 705 – Economic Analysis for Planners |
3 credits |
UBPL 736 – Planning Institutions |
3 credits |
UBPL 741 – Quantitative Methods I |
3 credits |
UBPL 742 – Quantitative Methods II |
3 credits |
UBPL 763 – Professional Practice |
3 credits |
UBPL 815 – History and Theory of the Planning Process |
3 credits |
UBPL 850 – Urban and Regional Theory |
3 credits |
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21 credits |
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Concentration Courses in Urban Planning |
12 credits |
Elective Courses in Urban Planning |
6 credits |
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TOTAL URBAN PLANNING COURSE WORK |
39 credits
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C. Geography Courses Required of All Combined Degree Candidates
Required Courses: |
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GEOG 714 – Field Experience |
3 credits |
GEOG 805 – Introduction |
2 credits |
GEOG 806 – Basic Seminar |
2 credits |
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At least one Techniques course (3 credit hours required) |
3 credits |
At least one Human Geography course (3 credit hours required) |
3 credits |
At least one Physical Geography course (3 credit hours required) |
3 credits |
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Thesis Hours |
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| GEOG 899 – Masters Thesis | 6 credits |
The Chair of the Masters thesis committee must come from the Department of Geography. At least one thesis committee member must come from the Urban Planning program. |
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TOTAL GEOGRAPHY COURSE WORK |
22 credits |
Students will choose Techniques courses from among the following:
GEOG 513 – Cartographic Design
GEOG 517 – Data Handling and Map Symbolization
GEOG 526 – Remote Sensing of Environment I
GEOG 558 – Intermediate GIS
GEOG 710 – Information Design
GEOG 716 – Advanced Geostatistics
GEOG 726 – Remote Sensing of Environment II
GEOG 758 – Geographic Information Science
GEOG 802 – Urban GIS
GEOG 858 – Environmental GIS
GEOG 911 – Seminar in Cartography
GEOG 912 - Seminar in Quantitative Methods
GEOG 926 – Seminar in Remote Sensing
Other Geography courses at the 500-level or above may be used to fulfill requirements in this category on the basis of petition.
Students will choose Human Geography courses from among the following:
GEOG 515 – Behavioral Systems
GEOG 557 – Cities and Development
GEOG 575 – Geography of Population
GEOG 719 – Development of Geographic Thought
GEOG 751 – Analysis of Regional Development
GEOG 752 – Topics in Urban/Economic Geography
GEOG 771 – Topics in Cultural Geography
GEOG 772 – Problems in Political Geography
GEOG 773 – Humanistic Geography
GEOG 775 – Proseminar in Population Geography
GEOG 790 – North American Regions
GEOG 791 – Latin American Regions
GEOG 794 – Regions of the Former USSR
GEOG 795 – European Regions
GEOG 796 – Asian Regions
GEOG 957 – Seminar in Urban/Economic Geography
GEOG 970 – Seminar in Cultural Geography
GEOG 972 – Seminar in Political Geography
GEOG 975 – Seminar in Population Geography
Other Geography courses at the 500-level or above may be used to fulfill requirements in this category on the basis of petition.
Students will choose Physical Geography courses from among the following:
ATMO 525 – Air Pollution
GEOG 521 – Microclimatology
GEOG 531 – Topics in Physical Geography
GEOG 532 - Geoarcheology
GEOG 535 - Introduction to Soil Geography
GEOG 541 - Geomorphology
GEOG 731 – Topics in Physical Geography
GEOG 733 – Advanced Biogeography Field and Laboratory Techniques
GEOG 735 – Soil Genesis, Classification, and Distribution
GEOG 741 – Advanced Geomorphology
GEOG 756 – Energy Problems and the Economic-Physical Environment
GEOG 935 – Seminar in Soil Geography
GEOG 937 – Seminar in Vegetation Geography
GEOG 939 – Seminar Fluvial Systems
Other Geography courses at the 500-level or above may be used to fulfill requirements in this category on the basis of petition.
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