Our Department
Mission Statement
Student Learning Goals
- Goal 1: Demonstrate technological capabilities related to geographic data interpretation and their spatial representation.
- Students can formulate geographic research questions.
- Students can collect, compile, and interpret geographic data.
- Students can present geographic data in a map.
- Goal 2: Demonstrate an awareness and appreciation of global, regional, and local scales and the interdisciplinary nature of geography in the physical and social worlds.
- Students can recognize the presence and application of regional, local, and global dimensions of the social and physical worlds in data and the landscape.
- Goal 3: Demonstrate an awareness of environmental and social diversity, human-environmental interaction, and environmental values.
- Students can explain interactions between the size and distribution of human and non-human populations, resources and the natural environment in historic and contemporary perspectives.
- Students are cognizant of varying interpretations of diversity, causality, interaction, policy and values in human-environmental relationships.
- Student will understand ways in which they use the environment can affect future generations and other human and natural systems.
- Goal 4: Demonstrate commitment to experiential learning and service to the community and the environment.
- Students provide appropriate geographic skills to community-based organizations and associations.
- Goal 5: Demonstrate proficiency in written and spoken communication.
- Students can write clearly in the discipline of geography and use and cite scholarly sources of information correctly.
- Students can speak clearly in the discipline of geography.
Facilities and Equipment
GeoPlace
GeoPlace is in Butte 111 and is a group project workspace that comes with a media table including a large screen and sharing devices.The GEOP HUB
The student computer lab contains 30 new Dell workstations, LCD displays, and are running Windows 7. This state-of-the-art lab is continuing to grow. We are always adding new software packages in support of our techniques-based classes.
Software | Output Devices | Field Equipment |
- ArcGIS 10.3.1 (w/ all extensions) | - Wacom 21" Cintiq display | - Trimble GeoXM w/Pathfinder |
- Adobe Creative Suite 6 with Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, DreamWeaver, Photoshop | - Nikon Coolpix 7600 digital camera | |
- ENVI 5- Remote Sensing Analysis | - HP Z5400 color plotter (up to 42" wide) | - Increment tree borers |
- Google Earth | - Color scanner | - Clinometers |
- Adobe Flash Builder | - Densiometers | |
- SPSS 21 R Package | - Color laser printer (to 11"x17") | - Stream flow meters |
- Canoco PC-ORD |
Geography and Environmental Studies Equipment
The department provides field equipment and electronic devices for checkout by students and faculty.
Meriam Library Map Repository
An extensive map collection is located in Special Collections(opens in new window) on the fourth floor of the University's main library. It is open to the public.