Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Geography] From University of Colorado

The Department of Geography offers a bachelor of arts (BA) degree in geography. The geography BA emphasizes knowledge and awareness of:

• the unique contributions of the discipline to understanding the spatial components of problems and the diverse factors relating to human interaction with the environment;  
• the spatial distributions of physical and human characteristics on the Earth surface, the general patterns these form and the processes that have created and are changing these patterns;
• the major themes of geographical analysis, including absolute and relative location; human and physical characteristics of place; human and environmental relations; movement of people, ideas and products; and regionalization; and
• the general geographical principles of human-environment interaction, global change and human spatial organization.