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Geography - M.A. Program Requirements PDFDownload to print

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (32 credits)
Course Title Credits
GEOG 60197 Interdepartmental Colloquium 2
GEOG 60800 Seminar in the Development of Geographic Thought 3
GEOG 69701 Research and Presentation of Geographic Data 3
Choose from the following*: 6
GEOG 54070 Spatial Analysis and Location Theory (3)  
GEOG 59070 Geographic Information Science (3)  
GEOG 59076 Spatial Programming (3)  
GEOG 59080 Advanced Geographic Information Science (3)  
GEOG 59230 Remote Sensing (3)  
GEOG 59480 Field Study in Geography (3)  
GEOG 69004 Quantitative Methods in Geography (3)  
GEOG 69010 Urban Information and Systems Methodology (3)  
Additional Program Requirements** 12
Thesis  
GEOG 60199 Thesis I 6
   
TOTAL 32


* Students who earned their bachelor's degree at Kent State University and have taken the undergraduate equivalents of any techniques courses listed can count these towards the techniques courses requirement. Note that these courses taken at the undergraduate level will not count towards the total degree course hour requirement, only that additional techniques courses will not be required.

**No more than 3 credit hours of research (GEOG 60996 or GEOG 60998) may count towards the M.A. degree requirements.