Department of Geography (GEO)
College of Arts & Sciences

129 Graham Building
(336) 334-5388
www.uncg.edu/geo

GEO Courses Index | Geography Major BA | Geography Minor | Geography Second Major | Geography Teacher Licensure

Faculty

Gordon Bennett, Professor and Head of Department

Professors Hidore, Rees; Associate Professors Debbage, Lewis, Patton; Assistant Professors Lennartson, E. Nelson, Stine; Lecturer/Spatial Analysis Lab Director, J. Nelson

The Department of Geography offers a program which has three principal objectives: to promote the understanding of the locational dimensions of human behavior in their environmental context; to offer a curriculum where geographic concepts and methods are applied to understanding economic, environmental and social problems at the urban and regional scale; and to promote international understanding through area studies. Thus, the purposes of the program are to contribute an important dimension to the university student's liberal education and to provide practical training in important contemporary areas of concern as well as the background appropriate for certain vocations.

Graduating majors of the department have found careers in business and industry, in urban and regional planning agencies, in departments of federal and state governments, and in teaching. Job titles include city or regional planner, cartographer, demographer, resource analyst, land or economic developer, location analyst, and teacher. Many graduates find that an undergraduate degree in geography is an excellent foundation for advanced graduate work or professional training in planning, business or law.

Special facilities of the department include fully equipped laboratories in computer cartography, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and physical geography with a variety of other specialized locational analysis programs for both instruction and research.