Master's Curriculum

Students have the choice of completing an academic thesis or professional, non-thesis course of study. The thesis track requires 30 credit hours including a Master's Thesis and Research in Residence, while the non-thesis track requires the submission of two research papers.

Required courses include:

• GEG 501 - Place, Region, and Nature
• GEG 603 - Advanced Research Design in Geography

Two of the following:

• GEG 582 - Advanced Quantitative Methods
• GEG 591 - Introduction to GIS
• GEG 672 - Environmental Monitoring Assessment
• GEG 681 - Advanced Spatial Statistics

One or more of the following, depending on degree track:

• GEG 515 - Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
• GEG 637 - Development Studies
• GEG 661 - Advanced Urban Geography
• GEG 535 - Supervised Internship (non-thesis track)
• GEG 710 - Master's Thesis (thesis track)
• GEG 720 - Research in Residence (thesis track)

Possible electives:

• GEG 503 - Research Trends in Geography
• GEG 510 - Survey Research in Geography
• GEG 520 - Immigration to the United States
• GEG 521 - Global Trade
• GEG 522 - Urbanization in the Developing World
• GEG 523 - Seminar in Urban Management
• GEG 552 - Seminar on the Geography of South Florida
• GEG 595 - Advanced Seminar on South Asia
• GEG 620 - Political Geography
• GEG 651 - Geopolitics and Geoculture