本文着重于对地球物理特征和过程以及人类对其的影响的科学解释。学生参加有关地貌学，水文学，流域分析，生物地理学，气候学和景观生态学的课堂，实验室和野外活动。在这种重点下的学生将把在物理和生物科学方面的基础训练与在空间分析中的方法技术结合起来，包括使用卫星图像和地理信息系统，以研究地球物理环境的过程和由此产生的特征。
This emphasis deals with the spatial aspects of human existence: how people and their activities are distributed in space, how they use and perceive space, and how they create and sustain the places that make up the earth's surface. It focuses on the connections between global and local scales and teaches students how to think geographically about global issues such as poverty, migration, environment and development, and changing technology. Human geography includes urban geography, political geography, demography, economic geography, political ecology, social and cultural geography, feminist geography and many other emerging fields, such as children's geographies. It encompasses a variety of theoretical approaches and methods.