Department of Geography, Geographic Information Science and Meteorology
Minors in Geography
Minor in Weather and Climate…………………………………………..……………..16-17 s.h.
Required Courses (13 s.h.)
- METR 120--Introduction to Weather and Climate
- METR 322 (Synoptic Meteorology I),
- METR 327 (Environmental Climatology),
- METR 422 (Synoptic Meteorology II)
Choose one of the following (3-4 s.h.):
- GEOG 301, 303, 430
- METR 300, 322, 329, 333, 432
Minor in Geography …………………………………………………………..……19 s.h.
1. Any three courses selected from :
- GEOG 100(Human Geography)
- GEOG 110 (World Regional Geography)
- GEOG 120 (Introduction to Weather and Climate)
- GEOG 121 (Planet Earth-Surface Processes and Interactions)
2. Upper division electives to be approved by the advisor
Minor in Geographic Information Systems ………………………………………18 s.h.
Required courses:
- GEOG 208 Cartographic Design for GIS
- GEOG 308 Introduction to GIS
- EOG 408 Environmental Geographic Information Science
- GEOG 409 Thematic Geographic Information Science
and one of the following courses:
- DS 203 Introduction to Statistics for Decision Making
- GEOG 301 Introduction to Quantitative Geography
- LEJA 303 Quantitative Techniques for Criminal Justice
- PSY 223 Research in Psychology I: Statistical Methods and Design
- SOC 232 Social Research Methods I
- STAT 171 General Elementary Statistics.
Complete 3 s.h. from the following courses:
- AGTM 461 Surveying and Soil and Water Conservation Engineering
- ARTS 314 Artistic Digital Imaging
- CS 114 Introduction to Computer Science
- CS 214 Principles of Computer Science
- GEOG 401 Air Photo Interpretation
- GEOG 403 Advanced Remote Sensing
- GEOG 499 Special Problems in Geography if the special topic is GIS related
- MATH 341 Sets and Logic
- MATH 383 An Introduction to Mathematical Modeling
- MATH 481 Numerical Analysis I
- STAT 276 Introduction to Probability and Statistics
- STAT 471 Introduction Mathematical Statistics I
- STAT 474 Regression and Correlation Analysis
- STAT 478 Analysis of Variance
Undergraduate Advisor
Jennifer Sandrik-Rubio
309/298-3606
jl-sandrik@wiu.edu
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