If you want to see and understand the world without leaving Lansing, then you’ll love Geography at Lansing Community College! Geographers enter an excellent job market focused on environmental, demographic, and regional economic analysis, among many other exciting issues, using technologic tools like GIS and GPS, as well as Remote Sensing. Students learn about the physical nature of the earth, the life that exists on it, and how the elements of both have shaped the beliefs, movements and actions of humanity.
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Degrees and Certificates Offered
Geography, AA
Overview
Geography is concerned with studying the earth's topography and climate and how these affect people and living things. Additionally, it analyzes how human society alters and influences the natural environment that society is dependent on to thrive and succeed. Geographers analyze economic, social, and physical resources while attempting to explain the multiple relationships between people and their environment."
PROGRAM DETAILS
Admissions Requirements
LCC is an open enrollment college serving all those who are excited to learn. Applicants seeking financial aid must possess a high school diploma or GED.
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Career: Geographers
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Career: Geography Teachers, Postsecondary
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Career: Wind Energy Project Managers
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Career: Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers
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Career: Geographers
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Program Learning Outcomes
- Outcome #1: Classify and Interpret physical processes and identify their spatial distribution on the Earth's surface, including landforms, climate, soils, vegetation, and hydrology.
- Outcome #2: Distinguish and classify human characteristics, human activities and processes, and interpret their spatial distribution on the Earth's surface, including the composition of population, cultural complexes, economic interdependence, settlement and political patterns.
- Outcome #3: Identify and critically analyze patterns of human-environment interactions, including perception, distribution, and use of natural resources.
- Outcome #4: Identify, describe, and analyze patterns of human distribution, movement, interaction, and environmental impact.
- Outcome #5: Demonstrate competency in comprehending and manipulating spatial information in maps, graphs, and spatial datasets.
- Outcome #6: Communicate in written and spatial form the geographic concepts, theories, and information/data that underlay the cultural and physical diversity of world realms and regions, as well as globalization.
Transferability
General education requirements may differ from one institution to another. Contact your preferred institutions and plan their general education requirements accordingly with an LCC advisor.