You want to understand the world. Why not start with a river, a city, a mountain, a road, and follow it to the ends of the earth? Geography and Planning ask the big questions - How? Why? What if? - and let you answer them with advanced technology and a solid knowledge of the world in which you live.

  • Manage natural and urban environments
  • Analyze the evolving relationship between people and places
  • Plan transportation routes
  • Create Geographic Management Systems for industries and government agencies
  • Help understand and restore natural ecosystems
  • Geographers and Planners make a difference!
     

The world is changing rapidly. Where people once focused on their neighborhood, their town, their country, they are now adopting a more global perspective. They are learning that the earth‘s resources are not limitless and that the impact of human beings on the environment is far greater than had been anticipated as little as a decade ago. 

 
Considering a career in Geography and Planning?

 

Department Chair

Dr. Jim Young
youngje@appstate.edu


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