Bachelor of Arts in Geography (BA)
This degree offers students a broad liberal arts education touching on all aspects of Geography. As part of this degree students need to meet the KU Core Requirements and/or requirements set by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. College requirements are the same as those for the Bachelor of General Studies degree, and require a minimum of 33 credit hours in Geography. Course work includes 18 hours of fundamentals courses and 15 additional hours selected from four topical groups: physical, human, techniques and regional. Students taking the B.A. degrees should note that most Geography graduate programs require a statistics course, e.g., GEOG 316, and we highly recommend a basic course in GIS, e.g., GEOG 358.
Current course requirements are also listed in the KU online catalogue.
| College Requirements | Credit Hrs |
| First Year Writing | 6 |
| Quantitative Reasoning | 3 |
| Lab or Field Experience | Variable |
| Non-English Language Study | Variable |
| Geography Course Requirements | |
| GEOG 104 Principles of Physical Geography (or GEOG 107) | 3 |
| GEOG 105 Introductory Laboratory in Physical Geography | 2 |
| GEOG 102 People, Place, and Society (or GEOG 103) | 3 |
| GEOG 111 Mapping Our Changing World (or GEOG 358 Principles of Geographic Information Sciences) | 3 |
| GEOG 311 Intro to Cartography and Geovisualization (or GEOG 316 Methods of Analyzing Geographical Data) | 4 |
| GEOG 500 Senior Capstone in Geography | 3 |
| 15 additional credit hours selected from at least 3 of the 4 major categories (Physical Studies, Geographic Information Science, Human Studies, or Regional Studies): | 15 |
| Hour and GPA Requirements | |
| Total Credit Hours | > 124 |
| CLAS Hours | > 99 |
| Junior Senior Hours | > 45 |
| KU Red Hours | > 30 |
| CC Transfer Credits | < 64 |
| Other KU Schools | < 25 |
| Hrs Music Org | < 6 |
| Hrs Phys Ed | < 4 |
| Overall GPA | > 2.0 |
| Geography GPA | > 2.0 |