Geography
Program Description
An Associate in Science (AS) degree in Geography emphasizes learning about diverse cultures, physical landscapes, and geospatial tools. This major offers a diverse program focusing on contemporary, local, and world issues. Students will learn to leverage their knowledge of cultural and physical processes and digital modeling techniques to focus on the effects of space and place and interpret any landscape using an inherently geospatial approach.
Graduates of this program will successfully complete the following learning outcomes:
- Analyze the controls, distribution, and classification of world climates
- Compare and contrast different types of landforms
- Analyze spatially related problems related to current/recent geopolitical events
- Use spatial thinking to analyze the human organization of space
- Understand the associations and networks among phenomena in particular places
- Recognize and interpret the relationships among patterns and processes at different scales of analysis
- Formulate a geospatial question, and determine the selection of, and impact on affected stakeholders
- Describe and explain the relevant physical and human data needed to answer a geospatial question
- Acquire, represent, and process relevant geospatial data
- Apply analytical models to interpret and explain the patterns, processes, and interrelationships represented by geospatial data
- Assess and present results of geospatial analysis
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Schedule NowDegree(s) / Certificates(s)
| Title | Local Bachelor's |
|---|---|
| Geography - A.S. Transfer Degree | - |
Career Outlook
Successful completion of this program can open doors to various employment opportunities, many of which require further higher education at the university level. Below are examples of related occupations and their annual mean wages in Arizona, based on career and wage data from Pipeline AZ, which utilizes government sources for its reports and forecasts.
Description
Teach courses in geography. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.
Duties/Tasks
- Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
- Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as urbanization, environmental systems, and cultural geography.
- Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
- Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
- Compile, administer, and grade examinations, or assign this work to others.
- Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
- Maintain student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
- Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
- Plan, evaluate, and revise curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
Salary Information (AZ)
$84,250
$48,000
$77,630
$129,660
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Typical Education Level
Doctoral Degree
Contact Information
Department Contact(s)
Faculty/Staff Contact(s)
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tracy Knudson | Administrative Assistant IV | (928) 317-7107 | Tracy.Knudson@azwestern.edu |