地理科学学士

地理学是对物理和社会空间分布，模式和运动的研究。人类地理学家研究各种人类活动的地理模式：经济，政治和文化。自然地理学家专注于物理过程及其影响的地理：天气和气候的地理。在俄亥俄州立大学，学生可以从四个专业中进行选择：环境与社会（E＆S）专业专注于理解社会与环境过程之间的相互关系。诸如土地利用决策，种族不平等和贫困以及政治决策等社会过程与生物地球物理现象密切相关。城市，区域和全球研究（URGS）研究了一系列直接和遥远的社会，经济，政治和文化力量：生产和金融全球化，技术变革，移民，跨国社会运动政治，社会冲突和战
Geography is the study of distributions, patterns and movements across space, both physical and social. Human geographers study the geographic patterns of various human activities: economic, political and cultural. Physical geographers focus on the geography of physical processes and their effects: the geography of weather and climate. At Ohio State, students choose from four specializations: The environment and society (E&S) specialization focuses on understanding the reciprocal relationships between social and environmental processes. Social processes such as land-use decisions, racial inequality and poverty, and political decision making are closely linked to biogeophysical phenomena. Urban, regional and global studies (URGS) examines a range of social, economic, political and cultural forces that are both immediate and distant: the globalization of production and finance, technological change, migration, transnational social movement politics, social conflict and war, and other forms of political conflict around race, gender and class. Students in the climate and physical geography (CPG) specialization study the interactions between the Earth's surface, at local and global scales, and the atmosphere. For example, events in the Pacific Ocean such as El Niño or La Niña affect the global circulation and can change the location of the jet stream or the number of hurricanes over the Atlantic Ocean. Students in the spatial analysis (SA) specialization develop GIS and spatial analysis skill sets that are crucial for today's society and have many uses ranging from emergency management, business location and retail analysis, transportation modeling, crime and disease mapping, and natural resource management.