Degree Title
Bachelor of Arts
Summer A 2025 Start Date:
May 5, 2025
Summer B 2025 Start Date:
June 16, 2025
Overview
Geography focuses on understanding humanity's relations with the earth. One perspective addresses how humanity organizes the world spatially, from the level of the household to cities, countries, and the world. This includes questions of how we give meaning to places and how we create territory. Another approach addresses the two-way interactions between humanity and nature. This includes questions of nature’s effects on human societies and of humanity’s role in transforming the earth.
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Why Apply?
A Geography Major in Global Studies equips students to understand and solve some of the world's most urgent social and environmental problems. Geographic technologies provide important tools for social science inquiry. These include computer-based geographic information sciences (GIS), remote sensing, and online, interactive mapping.
Career Opportunities
People with geography majors in global studies often develop careers in fields like high-tech, real estate, public health, environmental management, education, disaster response, city and regional planning, community development, and many others.
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Courses
For more information on the Online Bachelor of Arts in Geography Major, Global Studies program please visit the FIU Course Catalog. If you would like to view the specific courses related to the program, please use the breadcrumbs on the Course Catalog to go back and select the “Courses” tab.
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Admissions
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Tuition and Aid
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Top Faculty
Dr. Young Rae Choi, Assistant Professor of Geography
She is a human-environmental geographer with interests in the field of marine and coastal governance and in East Asian studies. Using political ecology and critical political economy, her research investigates the complexity and connectivity of development-conservation relations with a focus on large-scale coastal development in East Asia. Her current projects include the modern history of coastal land reclamation in South Korea, sustainability controversies around eco-cities built on reclaimed land, and the neoliberal fisheries and fishing communities proliferating in the era of green growth. She teaches undergraduate courses in World Regional Geography, Geography of East Asia, and Marine Geography.
Dr. Ricardo Gonzalez, Associate Teaching Professor Geography
He serves as the Faculty Advisor for Undergraduate Programs in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, and any student interested in the Geography major (or any of the other Global Studies majors) should seek him out to help them get started. His research is in the field of Coastal/Marine Geography, with a particular focus on fishing technologies in South America. He teaches undergraduate courses in Cultural Geography, Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean, and Geography of Europe.
Dr. Roderick Neumann, Professor of Geography
His research is centrally concerned with the study of culture and nature in Western thought. His work draws from a wide range of critical social theory, including the Marxist, feminist, critical race, and post-colonialist literatures, as well as from the ecological sciences. His methods are predominantly ethnographic and historical. He has conducted fieldwork primarily at rural sites in and around protected areas, particularly national parks and forests, in Tanzania, Western Europe, and California. His latest research agenda incorporates insights from science and technology studies and the so-called nonhuman turn in the humanities and social sciences, with the goal of engaging nonhuman perspectives for a fresh conceptualization of human-wildlife interactions in protected areas. His undergraduate courses include Cultural Geography and the Geography of Global Change.
Dr. Ulrich Oslender, Associate Professor of Geography
His research interests lie in the fields of political and cultural geography, including: (i) critical geopolitics; (ii) spaces of resistance and the geographies of social movements (with emphasis on Latin America, particularly Colombia); (iii) geopolitical discourses on development, displacement, terror, and the connections between them; (iv) political ecology (in particular in tropical rainforest environments); and (v) the cultural politics of blackness in Latin America (with emphasis on the Afro-Colombian experience). He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Colombia, including long spells of participant observation among black communities in the Pacific coast region. He teaches undergraduate courses in World Regional Geography, Political Geography, and Critical Geopolitics.
Dr. Benjamin Smith, Associate Professor of Geography
He has long been fascinated by how we organize our landscapes and why our world looks the way it does. He is particularly interested in how places define themselves through their landscapes, and why some places (and the people who live in them) are more successful in doing so than others. His research seeks answers to these fundamentally geographic questions.. Most of his research is on how landscape mattered in shaping the cultural economy of Arab Gulf Cities, particularly Dubai. His undergraduate teaching includes World Regional Geography, Geography of the Middle East, Geography of Global Change, and Urban Geography.
120 Credits Required
235.57 Per Credit Hour (In-State) + Fees
648.87 Per Credit Hour (Out-of-State) + Fees
* Total tuition and fees are subject to change.
Highlights
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