Students learn through lecture, discu ssion, laboratory, and field work. The Department of Geography is on the fourth floor of the Life Science Building of the Cooper Science Complex. Equipment includes computer terminals, a weather facsimile machine, and highly specialized remote-sensing and cartographic equipment. Elevators are available for students with limited mobility. Geographic knowledge can help solve many of the people-land problems common to our world.
Geographers ask questions of where and why .
Maps, computers, satellite images, and aerial photographers are used by geographers to observe, measure, analyze, and interpret the environment. Careers as Geographic Information Specialists are listed as one of the top twenty growth areas for jobs in the future, according to an October 1995 article in U.S. News and World Report. To pursue a career in higher education requires an advanced degree. In public schools, geography is a part of the social studies curriculum. In government and industry a geographer may work as a cartographer, meteorologist, intelligence officer, international economist, political analyst, transportation coordinator, travel counselor, or computer programmer.