Geography

Students will be able to locate features on the surface of the earth, explain why they are located where they are, and describe how places are similar and/or different.

Students will also examine human interactions with the environment and describe how physical and cultural landscapes change through time.

Students completing physical geography courses will be able to describe the processes that drive earth’s climate, create landforms, and govern the distribution of plants and animals.

Students completing human geography will analyze and describe cultural phenomenon such as population, development, agriculture, language, and religion. Geography is a dynamic discipline that is concerned with where things are located on the surface of the earth, why they are located where they are, and how places are similar and/or different.

Geographers further examine our interaction with the environment and how physical and cultural landscapes change through time.

There are two main branches of geography:

physical geography, which focuses on the processes that drive the earth's climate, create landforms, and govern the distribution of plants and animals; and human geography, which focuses on cultural phenomenon such as, population, development, agriculture, language, and religion.

Geography students are trained to examine the spatial organization of physical features and human activities at a variety of spatial scales from local to global.

A background in geography is a necessity for careers involving business, economics, planning, education, history, international relations, cartography, conservation, GIS, demography, transportation, tourism, and others. The Associate in Arts in Geography for Transfer (AA-T in Geography) is intended for students who plan to transfer and complete a bachelor's degree in Geography), or a "similar" major at a CSU campus.

Students completing this AA-T degree are guaranteed admission to the CSU system, but not necessarily to a particular CSU campus or major of their choice.

For a current list of what majors (and what options or areas of emphasis within that major) have been designed as “similar” to this degree at each CSU campus, please refer to adegreewithaguarantee.com or icangotocollege.org and seek guidance from a Moorpark College counselor..