The Department of Geography, Environment, & Sustainability prepares students to explore and understand cultural, bio-physical, and geospatial environments and their interactions and transformations, thereby empowering our students to shape a just and sustainable world. Students find geography’s interdisciplinary nature combines well with other programs and fields of study, such as global studies, environmental studies, biology, and economics. Geography professors offer exciting, experiential courses on a range of important issues like global climate change, industrialization, resource management, agricultural change, urbanization, land use, deforestation, and hydrology. Students will learn to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related geospatial technologies to prepare them for exciting employment and research opportunities in many different fields. Our department also hosts a new popular sustainability minor to help more students understand and engage with our world’s evolving challenges and opportunities.
Your support provides invaluable resources so that our geography students can engage in our One Planet, One Home applied research approach: hands-on/muddy boots learning experiences along the James River, in Richmond, and around the world that address real-world problems and inspire a lifelong sense of intellectual curiosity.
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