Thirty-six semester hours including core courses specified by the department and an oral examination conducted by the candidate's faculty committee. A list of courses that meet the general distribution requirement is available from the departmental chair. Geographic analysis of the American South, with emphasis on the dynamic character of Southern development. Designed to provide an understanding of the present day South and its potentialities. Areal patterns of modern urban regions and the focus shaping these patterns.
Emphasis is placed on American urban areas and their evolution and functional areas.
The patterns of transportation and the geographic factors that have established them. The relationship of transportation media and patterns to settlement is emphasized. Natural resources of the state, its leading occupations, and its geographic regions. Geography of the United States in past times with special attention to the westward movement. Factors of settlement and emphasis upon changing environmental interrelationships.