Geography as a field of study links the physical and social sciences. The BA and BS degrees offered by the Department of Geography are part of a comprehensive liberal arts education. The program offers three areas of course specialization: physical-environmental geography (human impact on the environment); urban-economic geography (urban studies, demography-market analysis, location problems); and Geographic Information Systems (GIS- remote sensing). Geography also currently offers a number of introductory and advanced regional courses dealing with Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America for students interested in area studies. The undergraduate program features a number of courses that fulfill the Arts and Sciences distributional requirements in physical and social science as well as University General Education requirements in natural and social sciences and world cultures/ American diversity . As such many of our courses provide students with opportunities to develop good writing skills as well as exposure to analytical training and critical thinking, and computer competence leading to geography related careers or graduate school in geography or cognate disciplines (environmental studies, law, business, urban planning).