Geography and Environmental Sustainability: Geospatial Technologies, M.S.
View ChecksheetMinimum Total Hours (Thesis): 30
Minimum Total Hours (Non-Thesis): 33
Program Code: M463 Q269 (M464 Q269 Online)
Required Courses
THESIS OPTION
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses (must be completed with a B grade or better) | ||
| GEOG 6953 | Research and Professional Development | 3 |
| GEOG 6973 | Thinking about Geography and Environmental Sustainability | 3 |
| GIS 5923 | Spatial Statistics | 3 |
| Guided Electives 1 | ||
| Choose two GIS courses, examples include the following: | 6 | |
| Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Fundamentals of Remote Sensing | ||
| Remote Sensing Applications | ||
| GIS Applications | ||
| Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis | ||
| Advanced Remote Sensing | ||
| Choose one course in Techniques, examples include the following: | 3 | |
| Spatial Data Management for GIS Professionals | ||
| Drones and Remote Sensing | ||
| Digital Image Processing | ||
| Spatial Programming and GIS | ||
| Environmental Spatial Modeling | ||
| Choose one course in Geography | 3 | |
| GEOG 5980 | Research for Master's Thesis | 6 |
| General Electives | ||
| Choose 3 hours of graduate-level electives, as approved by the advisory committee and graduate liaison, to bring total applicable hours to 30 | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 30 | |
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Guided electives will be selected by the student under guidance of her/his advisory committee and as approved by the graduate liaison.
NON-THESIS OPTION
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses (must be completed with a B grade or better) | ||
| GEOG 6953 | Research and Professional Development | 3 |
| GEOG 6973 | Thinking about Geography and Environmental Sustainability | 3 |
| GIS 5923 | Spatial Statistics | 3 |
| Guided Electives 1 | ||
| Choose two GIS courses, examples include the following: | 6 | |
| Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Fundamentals of Remote Sensing | ||
| Remote Sensing Applications | ||
| GIS Applications | ||
| Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis | ||
| Advanced Remote Sensing | ||
| Choose one course in Techniques, examples include the following: | 3 | |
| Spatial Data Management for GIS Professionals | ||
| Drones and Remote Sensing | ||
| Digital Image Processing | ||
| Spatial Programming and GIS | ||
| Environmental Spatial Modeling | ||
| Choose two courses in Geography | 6 | |
| General Electives | ||
| Choose 9 hours of graduate-level electives, as approved by the advisory committee and graduate liaison, to bring total applicable hours to 33 | 9 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 33 | |
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Guided electives will be selected by the student under guidance of her/his advisory committee and as approved by the graduate liaison.
Suggested Geography Electives
Examples of possible Geography courses include:
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| GEOG 5023 | Geography of Health and Disease | 3 |
| GEOG 5033 | Human Impact on the Earth | 3 |
| GEOG 5043 | Urban Climatology | 3 |
| GEOG 5123 | Cities and Society | 3 |
| GEOG 5183 | Patterns and Processes in Landscape Ecology | 3 |
| GEOG 5273 | Regional Climatology | 3 |
| GEOG 5283 | Biogeography | 3 |
| GEOG 5293 | Hydrologic Science | 3 |
| GEOG 5313 | Interpreting Society and Environment: Qualitative Research Methods | 3 |
| GEOG 5343 | Climate, History, and Society | 3 |
| GEOG 5423 | Environmental Justice | 3 |
| GEOG 5713 | Dynamic Modeling of Socio-Environmental Systems | 3 |
| GEOG 5943 | Natural Hazards | 3 |
| GEOG 6240 | Seminar in Geography and Environmental Sustainability | 1-3 |
General Requirements for all Master's Degrees
The master’s degree requires the equivalent of at least two semesters of satisfactory graduate work and additional work as may be prescribed for the degree.
All coursework applied to the master’s degree must carry graduate credit.
Master’s degree programs which require a thesis consist of at least 30 credit hours. All non-thesis master’s degree programs require at least 30 credit hours.
Credit transferred from other institutions must meet specific criteria and is subject to certain limitations.
Courses completed through correspondence study may not be applied to the master’s degree.
To qualify for a graduate degree, students must achieve an overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher in the degree program coursework and in all resident graduate coursework attempted. A student must also have at least a 3.0 in all coursework (including undergraduate coursework if any).
Additional information for master's degree students may be found in the Graduate College Bulletin.