BA in Geography- Geographic Information Systems in Bowling Green United States | Bowling Green State University

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) specialization suits students deeply interested in leveraging GIS to analyze, visualize, query, and interpret both spatial and non-spatial data. Beyond creating more precise environmental maps, GIS enables us to pose and answer spatial questions and address problems through what-if scenarios. Graduates of this program will be equipped for practical GIS roles in sectors like information technology, government (including military, intelligence, and census work), urban planning, health care, emergency management, environmental fields, and business, or for advanced studies concentrating on specific GIS applications, research, design, and technology development.
Geography examines human activities and their environmental contexts as they vary across locations. Geographers thus analyze the intricate interactions among people, culture, society, and place, exploring human impacts on the natural world and our responses to environmental shifts from both natural and human causes. They produce maps that depict these relationships using geospatial analysis methods and tools (such as geographic information systems), which rely on diverse data sources from remote sensing or ground collection. Given its broad scope, geography is closely connected to disciplines in the social sciences, natural sciences, computing, and business.
Graduates in geography are ready for careers demanding analytical and geospatial technology expertise or for graduate programs focusing on specific geographic subfields.
As a comprehensive, integrative field, geography bridges the physical and social sciences to investigate global interactions among people, culture, society, natural environments, and places.
Geography offers crucial insights into these interactions for the private and public sectors, as well as academia. Faculty in geography educate students to grasp and connect concepts, gather and interpret diverse data, and apply tools and methods to analyze and present spatial information.

The degree program is structured around the department's emphasis on spatial analysis of human engagements with social, cultural, and natural settings. It strongly highlights and incorporates the skill of identifying and articulating spatial relationships using geospatial methods throughout the curriculum.

The curriculum also prioritizes and integrates spatial analysis approaches like computer mapping, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and remote sensing. Geography majors are encouraged to complete a statistics course as well.