Professor Krygier
Assistant Professor Amador Rowley

Geography examines humankind’s transformation of, impact on, and alteration of the surface of the Earth and the people that inhabit it. The major seeks to expose the student to the nature of geographic knowledge and the process of geographic inquiry. The Geography major emphasizes four themes, which together provides a means of understanding the complex relationships between humans, their activities, and the Earth’s natural and social environments. As a Geography major at Ohio Wesleyan, you will learn about the geography of Earth’s physical environments, human impacts on the physical environment, the organization and development of cultural regions, landscapes, urban areas on the surface of the Earth, and cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and Remote Sensing. The major provides a broad base for graduate study in Geography and many other natural and social sciences, and careers in geography, urban and regional planning, environmental management, resource management, Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing, consulting firms concerned with environmental and resource problems, and areas of business which deal with location-based problems. Geography at Ohio Wesleyan maintains close ties with Environmental Studies, Geology, Urban Studies, and other programs in the social sciences, especially International Studies, International Business, Economics, Latin American Studies, Politics and Government, History, and Sociology/Anthropology.

Majors should be declared by the end of the sophomore year. To declare geography as a major, a student must have a 2.0 grade point average at the time of declaration. The student must maintain a 2.0 grade point average in his/her program to remain a major.