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Oct 25, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Geography and Geospatial Sciences
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Charles W. Martin, Head
1002 Seaton Hall
785-532-6727
E-mail: geog@k-state.edu
www.k-state.edu/geography
Geography is an integrative discipline that examines the Earth’s landforms, inhabitants, and cultures. Geographers seek to understand how spatial connections and patterns unfold across the globe and to apply that knowledge to address pressing social and environmental challenges. In studying spatial phenomena, geographers use various methods and techniques including, but not limited to, mathematical and cartographic analysis, computer mapping, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and ethnography.
Geography is the original environmental science at the forefront of studies in sustainability and human-environment interaction. Geographers’ traditional concern about human impact on the environment leads them to study air pollution, contamination of waterways, urban decay, rural depopulation, and landscape alteration, among other topics. Many of these issues are best understood by considering such interrelated factors as technology, population characteristics, legal structure, cultural traditions, and the environment.
A geography degree gives students the tools to comprehend a complex and dynamic world by helping them understand people, places, landscapes, and environments.
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