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=School of Education Geography Major and Minor=

== **IMPORTANT:** The secondary education faculty members are restructuring their teacher certification programs at UW-Madison. These programs may move to post-baccalaureate certification, which means that students will only be certified to teach these subjects through graduate-level work in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. **If approved, certification will no longer be offered at the undergraduate level and the current undergraduate teacher licensing programs will be discontinued.** ==

== The programs affected by these deliberations are English, Mathematics, Social Studies (Broad Field Social Studies, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology), and Science (Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Space Science, Broad Field/Natural Science, and Physics). ==

== If a decision is made to eliminate these undergraduate programs, it is possible that the last group of undergraduates would be admitted to the current professional programs as soon as the **fall of 2012**. The application period for this admission period will extend from October 1, 2011, to February 1, 2012. ==

== Program admission requirements may be modified for this final admission period. **In particular, applicants will probably need to complete fewer credits than are currently required in the major to be eligible for admission to an individual program.** The total number of credits eventually required for the major, however, will remain the same. ==

== Please stay in touch with Education Academic Services (EAS) regarding the upcoming changes in the Secondary Education programs. EAS is located in Room 139 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall; 608-262-1651. Updates will also be posted on the [|EAS website]. ==

Geography Major Requirements

 * 34** credits
 * Select one course from Physical Geography: Earth Systems and Environmental Processes. Courses address the locational arrangements of earth phenomena and their interaction as physical systems: 120, 121, 127, 320, 321, 325, 326, 328, 329, 331, 420, 421, 431, 435, 524, 525, 527, 528, 531.
 * Select one course from Environmental Studies: People-Environment Interaction. Courses examine human use, perception, and modification of environments: 139, 230, 240, 303, 309, 319, 336, 338, 339, 434, 460, 508, 519, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538.
 * Select one course from Human Geography. Includes study of the location and organization of human settlements and activities over earth space: 101, 102, 236, 300, 301, 302, 305, 311, 312, 318, 349, 353, 444, 501, 502, 503, 505, 506, 507, 508, 510, 553, 558.
 * Select one course from Area Studies and Global Systems. Courses focus on the ways in which regions, places and landscapes have acquired distinctive characteristics and problems as a result of their locations and resource potentials and of their settlement, appraisal and use by particular peoples and cultures: 140, 244, 253, 260, 277, 340, 341, 342, 344, 345, 348, 349, 353, 355, 358, 548, 549, 553.
 * Select one course from Cartography and Geographic Information Science. Courses address creation and use of maps: 170, 370, 351, 371, 375, 377, 570, 572, 574, 576, 578, 579.
 * Select **one course** from **Methodology**. These courses examine the nature and techniques of geographic investigation: 360, 365, 560, 565, 566, 601, 602. NOTE: 360 is strongly recommended for students pursuing graduate study or professional work in Geography.
 * 342 The Geography of Wisconsin, 3, or an acceptable substitute selected in consultation with the undergraduate advisor in the Department of Geography. 342 may be also used to fulfill the requirement in Area Studies and Global Systems.
 * Additional credits, if necessary, to total a minimum of 34 credits.

Geography Minor Requirements

 * 24** credits

May be completed by students in Secondary Education Social Studies or Elementary Education licensing programs. A minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.75 is required, based on all Geography minor course work taken on the UW-Madison campus.

Complete the required course distribution of the major and Geography electives (if needed) to reach 24 credits. Course work must include at least two approved upper-level courses (300-699). Geog 342 may also be used to fulfill the Area Studies and Global Systems group requirement.

Advisor in School of Education: Margot Kennard mkennard@education.wisc.edu262-1178