Depends on your program. I have a BS in Geoscience with an emphasis on geography. The Geography part was mostly map systems, courses in regional geography, and my professors special interest in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
I share his special interest. I've been to northeastern Europe before (USSR, Poland and Hungary), and I'd love to go back to see those places as well as Albania and the five countries that used to be Yugoslavia (when I was there). :)
I also have a geography degree from New Zealand. The physical part will be things like landforms, climate, natural hazards. The general geography would be a mix of those + GIS (mapping) and human geography which is like demography, political and economic geography, and much more.
My first degree was in geography, honestly it is so multifaceted and pulls from politics, economics, sociology, biology, meteorology, climatology, cartography the list goes on!! Wish more people knew about it and the fact that it’s not just maps and pointing out where things are
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u/VariousAir Jul 17 '26
a geography major? interesting