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Program Update: Coming Fall 2025

Beginning Fall 2025, Environment, Sustainability, and GIS—and our Geology program will merge to form a single, integrated program: Earth and Environmental Sciences. This new program brings together the strengths of both disciplines, offering students a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to studying our planet and its systems.

Unravel some of the biggest challenges of our time and acquire the skills to meet them.

With a focus on human-environment interactions, our students combine geographical theory, knowledge, and hands-on geospatial mapping to make connections, solve problems, and design more sustainable communities. Looking to make a difference in your world from the local to the global? Your future-forward career starts here.

Degrees

B.S.

Bachelor of Science with a Major in Geography:

Effective Fall 2025, the previous degree tracks in Environment, Sustainability, and GIS and Geology will no longer accept new students. All incoming students will enroll under the newly unified Earth and Environmental Sciences program and choose from its updated degree options.

MINOR

Minor in Geography

CERTIFICATES

 

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Our hands-on, applied approach offers opportunities to engage with critical topics, learn powerful conceptual frameworks, and develop concrete, employable skills like geospatial data analysis, mapping, and field research techniques. Our graduates are employed as GIS analysts/developers, environmental analysts, sustainability coordinators, urban and transportation planners, educators, supply chain analysts, and owners of environmental consulting firms.

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UWG alum, April McKown

Strong Work Ethic

McKown said she credits studies in environment, sustainability, and GIS for instilling in her a sense of ambition and strong work ethic. Still to this day, she recalls a moment when Professor Dr. Andy Walter told her to “shoot for whatever she wanted in life, both professionally and personally.”

- April McKown

Contact Us

CONTACT US:

(678) 839-6485 | geography@westga.edu

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