COLLOQUIUM FOR UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS

GEOG 565

Course Description

Orientation to geography as a scholarly discipline; its development, objectives, essential concepts, methods of investigation, institutions, opportunities, problems, and trends.

Prerequisties

Declared in Geography or Cartography and Geographic Information Systems undergraduate programs

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average

3.78

1.83% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

1.65% from Historical

A Rate

67.5%

7.87% from Historical

Class Size

-4.88% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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