funnyman

I took a geography class last quarter and I enjoyed it. What do current geography majors like/dislike about their major?

Thanks

Sligh_Anarchist

That's a question I would like to know as well. Why don't you post it outside of the UCLA forum. The only way I found this was by searching "geography" in the search tools.

modernfuturist

I'm a geography major and I had trouble finding information about it or even other people who were in the major, especially on this forum.

The major has a really short list of prereqs (Geo 1 or 2, and Geo 3, 4 or 5, and Statistics 10 or 13). I've found that there are two sets of disciplines amongst in the Geography department, human and natural geography. Natural geographers like to look at the world's processes and examine the human impact on the world, this is slightly more scientific. On the other hand is human geography and understanding cultural and social factors. This is the best way I can describe the two categories of class but you are welcome to take whichever ones you want.

The geography department is pretty good and theres some really interesting classes and instructors. I'm taking Geography 132 this quarter and it's solely about Food and Agriculture. Very interesting stuff...

purpleube

I was admitted for this fall as a transfer into the geography major, but I think I'm going to change my major. With the number of upper division classes it requires, it would be difficult for me to complete them and still spend as much time studying abroad as I want within a two year time frame.

modernfuturist

12 upper division classes is quite low for a major... I don't know of many other majors with such a low number of upper division reqs.

purpleube

It is low, but the study abroad program that I want to do wouldn't offer any classes in that subject since it's an intensive language program. So I may try to change my major to accommodate that language study, unless I can come up with a better plan.