Geography

Geography

Geography ADT students will learn and practice applying knowledge of how Earth’s environment, culture, politics, and economics are interconnected in today’s globalized world. Geographers apply their knowledge and skills to solve problems and improve people’s lives in their own neighborhoods, across California and the US, and around the world. The Associate of Arts in Geography Degree for Transfer (ADT) is designed to prepare students to successfully transfer to CSU or UC Bachelor’s Degree Geography programs with junior status. Using the fundamentals of the scientific method, critical thinking, research methods, spatial data analysis, and landscape interpretation, the Geography ADT will prepare students for study in a wide range of 4-year degrees in environmental and social science fields.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

• Explain why the environment, culture, and society change so much from place to place, and use that knowledge to navigate life and career
• Identify and understand critical environmental, cultural, and social issues and challenges existing at a range of scales
• Explain the key environmental, cultural, and social challenges of the past, present, and future in terms of fundamental geographic, physical, and social science processes and concepts.
• Use information resources, field equipment, spatial technology and map data to research and identify various ways of understanding geographic patterns, challenges, problems, and solutions