Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
Core
- GEOG 320 - California
- GEOG 321 - United States
- GEOG 324 - Latin America
- GEOG 336 - Europe
- GEOG 426 - Regional Field Studies
- GEOG 312 - Culture Worlds
- GEOG 340 - Geography of Food
- GEOG 342 - Food, Place, and Culture
- GEOG 348 - Environment and Development
- GEOG 353 - Economic Geography
- GEOG 354 - Geography of Cities
- GEOG 360 - Human Dimensions of Climate Change
- GEOG 440 - Food Justice
- POL S 440 - Food Justice
- GEOG 454 - Sustainable Cities
- GEOG 554 - World Cities: Comparative Approaches to Urbanization
- GEOG 573 - Population and the Environment
- GEOG 341 - Feeding the World
- GEOG 370 - Conservation Science and Policy
- GEOG 570 - Environmental Conservation Practice
- GEOG 572 - Land Use Analysis
- GEOG 574 - Water Resources
- GEOG 303 - Severe Weather
- GEOG 375 - Environmental Hydrology
- GEOG 401 - Geomorphology
- GEOG 409 - Global Climate Change
- GEOG 503 - Climate Modeling 1: land-use and climate changes
- GEOG 507 - Geography of Natural Vegetation
- GEOG 509 - Regional Climatology
- GEOG 511 - Hydrology and Global Environmental Change
- GEOG 512 - World on Fire
- GEOG 576 - Advanced Watershed Analysis
- GEOG 578 - Practical Hydrologic Modeling
- GEOG 380 - Map Investigation
- GEOG 381 - Computerized Map Design
- GEOG 383 - GIS Scripting Fundamentals
- GEOG 385 - Spatial Data Analysis
- GEOG 484 - Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 580 - Data Management for Geographic Information Systems
- GEOG 581 - Data Visualization
- GEOG 582 - Introduction to GIS Programming
- GEOG 583 - Internet Mapping and Distributed GIServices
- GEOG 584 - Geographic Information Systems Applications
- GEOG 585 - Quantitative Methods in Geographic Research
- GEOG 586 - Qualitative Methods in Geographic Research
- GEOG 589 - GIS-Based Decision Support Methods
- GEOG 590 - Community-Based Geographic Research
- GEOG 591 - Remote Sensing of Environment
- GEOG 591L - Remote Sensing of Environment Laboratory
- GEOG 592 - Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment
- GEOG 592L - Intermediate Remote Sensing of Environment Laboratory
- GEOG 593 - GIS for Business Location Decisions
- GEOG 594 - Big Data Science and Analytics Platforms
- BDA 594 - Big Data Science and Analytics Platforms
Emphasis
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Emphasis in Water, Climate, and Ecosystems
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Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement
Impacted Program
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Major
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Preparation for the Major
27 units- GEOG 101 - Earth's Physical Environment
- GEOG 101L - Earth's Physical Environment Laboratory
- GEOG 102 - People, Places, and Environments
- GEOG 106 - World Regional Geography
- GEOG 103 - Weather and Climate
- GEOG 104 - Geographic Information Science and Spatial Reasoning
- GEOG 170 - Sustainable Places and Practices
- ENV S 100 - Environmental Sciences
- SUSTN 100 - Environmental Sciences
- BIOL 100 - General Biology
- BIOL 100L - General Biology Laboratory
- CHEM 200 - General Chemistry
- PHYS 180A - Fundamentals of Physics
- PHYS 182A - Physical Measurements Laboratory
- MATH 124 - Calculus for the Life Sciences
- MATH 150 - Calculus I
- STAT 250 - Statistical Principles and Practices
Student Assessment
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2024-25 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.