GEOGRAPHY, BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

NATURE AND HERITAGE TOURISM

The world is filled with innumerable examples of remarkable natural phenomena, as well as  historical artifacts and contemporary products of cultural diversity. Each year, millions of people travel for the purpose of appreciating natural features, historic sites and cultural landscapes. This degree option is designed to heighten students’ knowledge of these phenomena and to help them comprehend the consequences of tourism. While the Nature and Heritage Tourism Option focuses upon the relationship between the traveling public and the places that host them, its larger purpose is to foster greater understanding and awareness of the interrelationship of the physical and cultural environments by means of academic courses with the Geography core.

YEAR ONE                                                                                                             

IS1111 - The First Year Seminar: Critical Thinking and the Nature of Inquiry (3)

EN1200 - Composition (3)

GE2001 - Physical Geography (3)

GE2002 - Human Geography (3)

GE2090 - Computer Mapping (3)

MA Mathematics Foundations (3)

CTDI Creative Thought Directions (6)

PPDI Past and Present Directions (6)

YEAR TWO                                   

GE2730 - Travel and Tourism (3)

AN2210 - Cultural Anthropology (3)

Complete one of the following (2 - 3)

AP2010 - Foundations of Adventure Education

BU2450 - Principles of Marketing

Nature - Complete one of the following (3 - 4)

GE3320 - Natural Landscapes of the United States

NS2100 - Winter Ecology

SIDI Scientific Inquiry Directions 6-8

SSDI Self and Society Directions 6

Quantitative Reasoning in the Discipline Connection - complete one of the following: 3

MA2300 - Statistics I

SS3700 - Social Statistics

Elective (3)

YEAR THREE

Human Geography - Complete one of the following (3)

GE3020 - Cultural Geography

GE3030 - Urban Geography

GE3040 - Political Geography

Field Course - Complete one of the following (3)

GE3280 - The White Mountain Region

GE3290 - Ecotourism in Acadia National Park

Regional Geography - Complete two of the following (6)

GE3570 - Geography of Africa

GE3630 - Geography of Europe

GE3640 - Geography of the United States

GE3650 - Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific

GE3660 - Alaska and Canada

Culture/Heritage - Complete two of the following (6)

AN3110 - Cultural Ecology

AN3260 - Historical Archaeology

EN4600 - Travels

GE3020 - Cultural Geography (if not used to satisfy Human Geography)

HI3330 - New Hampshire and New England Historical Sites

SO3350 - Sociology of Popular Culture

Population/Marketing - Complete one of the following (3)

BU3320 - E-Commerce

BU3340 - Consumer Behavior

GE3330 - Population Dynamics

-- End of Population/Marketing group --

GE3780 - Nature and Heritage Tourism (3)

Electives (6)

YEAR FOUR                                                                                                           

GE3960 - Internship (3)

Local Development - Complete one of the following (3)

AH3450 - Architects and Society Since 1900

GE3030 - Urban Geography (if not used to satisfy Human Geography)

GE3110 - Community Planning

GE4750 - Tourism Development

GE3750 - Tourism Marketing Analysis

SO3100 - Urban Sociology

-- end of Local Development group --

BI3240 - Conservation (3)

WECO Wellness Connection (3)

WRCO Writing in the Discipline Connection (3)

Electives (15)

 * All course information is from the 2005 – 2006 Academic Catalog.