Human Geography

Minimum required: 120 semester credit hours

General Requirements

1. The general education core curriculum courses are listed in the degree plan below along with the statewide component code number.
2. In addition to the general education core curriculum requirements, the Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A) requires three additional hours of English literature, three hours of math/science/logic/computer science courses, six hours of 2000-level modern language courses, and a minor.
3. This major requires students to select a minor area of study from the approved list of Undergraduate Minors offered at Texas State. Recommended minors are Nature and Heritage Tourism, Geographic Information Science, Geology, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, History, and Sustainability Studies; however, other minors may be appropriate depending on a student's interests and career goals. Students are encouraged to meet with an academic advisor to review minor options and degree requirements.
4. To satisfy graduation requirements, students must have at least a 2.50 Geography major GPA and at least a 2.25 Texas State GPA. Students must make a grade of "C" or better in all Geography courses that are to be counted for credit toward their major.
5. This major requires a minimum of 32 semester credit hours of Geography courses.

Required Geography major courses include the following 14 hours:

Course List

• Introduction to Cultural Geography
• World Geography
• Introduction to Physical Geography
• Research Methods in Geography

Choose 4 hours from the following:

• Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems
• Maps and Mapmaking
• Remote Sensing and Earth Observation
• Field Methods

Required Human Geography core (6 hours):

Course List

Choose 6 hours from the following:

1. Economic Geography
2. Urban Geography
3. Political Geography
4. World Population

Required Regional Geography course:

Course List

Choose 3 hours from the following: 

• Geography of Europe
• Latin America
• United States and Canada
• Geography of North Africa and the Middle East
• Geography of Texas
• Geography of South and Southeast Asia
• Geography of East Asia
• Geography of the Southwest
• Regional Field Studies
• Geography of the Russian Realm

Additional Human Geography Requirements:

Course List

Choose 6 hours from the following:

• Global Environmental Change
• Researching the City
• Health Geography
• American Ethnic Geography
• Cultural and Political Ecology
• Geography of Food and Agriculture
• Race, Class, and the American City

*Students may also choose courses from the Human Geography Core and Required Regional Geography lists that were not taken to satisfy those requirements.

Geography required elective courses (3 hours) are to be selected in consultation with an academic advisor.

Students must complete a minimum of 36 advanced hours (3000 or 4000 level courses).

The minimum number of hours required for this degree program is 120. The number of free elective hours a student will complete depends on the number of hours a student may need to achieve the required 120 total or 36 advanced hours.

Nine hours of writing intensive (WI) courses are required for graduation