Geography, B.A. MAP

Major Academic Plans

Students at Cal Poly Humboldt follow many different paths to graduation. Your educational and career goals, as well as personal interests all contribute to planning the courses you take.

Major Academic Plans or MAPs show what courses you might take each semester in order to meet university and major program requirements and graduate with a degree in four years. Discussing course options with an advisor will best serve you in planning a customized schedule to meet your individual academic needs.

Additionally, you may build your personalized plan in DARS planning tools using a program MAP as a resource. Meet with your advisor each semester to assist in planning and to review your progress.

Year 1

Semester 1 (13-15 Units)

GE Area A: Written Communication ENGL 102 - Composition and Rhetoric A Units: 3 OR ENGL 104 - Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric Units: 3
Optional: ENGL 110 - Academic Literacies Support and Seminar Units: 2
GE Area A: Oral Communication COMM 100 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication Units: 3
GE Area B: Mathematics STAT 108 - Elementary Statistics Units: 3 OR (STAT 108I - Elementary Statistics with Integrated Support Units: 3 AND STAT 8 - Support for Elementary Statistics Units: 1 )^[1]
Major and GE Area D: Social Science & DCG Non-Domestic GEOG 105 - Human Geography Units: 3
Elective Units: 1

^[1] Credit earned for math support course (STAT 8) does not count toward GE, major or graduation units.

Semester 2 (14-15 Units)

GE Area A: Written Communication ENGL 103 - Composition and Rhetoric B Units: 3 ^[2]
Optional: ENGL 110 - Academic Literacies Support and Seminar Units: 2
GE Area A: Critical Thinking GEOG 100 - Critical Thinking: Technology and the Digital World Units: 3
Major & GE Area B1: Physical Science GEOG 106 - Physical Geography Units: 3
Major and GE Area B3: Lab Activity GEOG 106L - Physical Geography Laboratory Units: 1
Lower Division GE Area E: Lifelong Learning & Self-Development Units: 3
Elective Units: 1

^[2] If ENGL 104 was taken the previous semester take an elective, other GE or a major course in place of ENGL 103.

Year 2

Semester 3 (16-17 Units)

Lower Division GE Area B: Life Sciences Units: 3
Lower Division GE Area C: Arts Units: 3
Major / GE Area D: Social Science GSP 101 - Geospatial Concepts Units: 3
American Institutions/Lower Division GE Area D U.S. and California Government OR U.S. History Units: 3
Major (Systematic Geography) ^[3] Course #1 Units: 3-4
Elective Units: 1

^[3] See Major Notes.

Semester 4 (16 Units)

Lower Division GE Area C: Arts OR Humanities Units: 3
Lower Division GE Area C: Humanities Units: 3
American Institutions
U.S. and California Government
OR
U.S. History
Units: 3
GE Area F: Ethnic Studies Units: 3 (Select a course that also fulfills DCG Domestic)
Major (Regional Synthesis) GEOG 319 , GEOG 322 , GEOG 376 OR GEOG 472 Units: 3
Major (Depth Experience) Units: 1

Year 3

Semester 5 (16 Units)

Upper Division GE Area B: Math & Science Units: 3
Upper Division GE Area C: Arts & Humanities Units: 3 (Take a GWAR certified course)
UD GE Area D / Major (Systematic Geography)^[3] Course #2 GEOG 300 OR GEOG 301 OR GEOG 304 Units: 3
Major GEOG 311W - Geographic Research and Writing Units: 3 OR ESM 230 - Environmental Methods Units: 3
Major GEOG 310L - Geographic Research Laboratory Units: 1
Elective Units: 3

Semester 6 (13-15 Units)

Major (Systemic Geography) ^[3] Course #3 Units: 3-4
Major (Systemic Geography) ^[3] Course #4 Units: 3-4
Major (Depth Experience) Course #2 Units: 1
Elective or Minor Units: 3
Elective or Minor Units: 3

Year 4

Semester 7 (15-17 Units)

Major (Systemic Geography) ^[3]Course #5 Units: 3-4
Major (Systemic Geography) ^[3]Course #6 Units: 3-4
Elective or Minor Units: 3
Elective or Minor Units: 3
Elective or Minor Units: 3

Semester 8 (16 Units)

Major (Core) GEOG 411W - Senior Field Research Units: 4
Elective or Minor Units: 3
Elective or Minor Units: 3
Elective or Minor Units: 3
Elective or Minor Units: 3

Major Notes

Six systematic geography courses are required, including one course from each of the systematic emphasis areas (the Human World, the Physical Environment, Geospatial Systems. Students are encouraged to specialize in one area of systematic geography by taking at least two of the remaining three required systematic courses in one emphasis area. See Geography, B.A. for course options.