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Undergraduate Programs

Explore your options with programs that offer hands-on learning opportunities and a wide scope of career-building experiences.

Applied Anthropology, Anthropology, BA

Archaeology, Anthropology, BA

Geography and Geographic Information Science, BA

Geology, BS

Earth and Space Science Education
(Geology, BS with Secondary Science Education Teaching Certificate)

Regional Planning, BS

Anthropology Honors Program, BA

Geography Honors Program, BA

Regional Planning Honors Program, BS

Minors

Anthropology Minor

Geography Minor

Geology Minor

Regional Planning Minor

Graduate Programs

Expand your professional options with a graduate program that takes you directly into the material you’ll need to advance your career.

Applied Archaeology, MA

Geography and Planning, MS

Undergraduate Certificates

Cultural Competencies Certificate

Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Science and Applications Certificate

Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Certificate

Graduate Certificates

GIS and Geospatial Techniques Certificate

Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Certificate

Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Science and Applications Certificate

Planetarium

The new Cejka Planetarium in Kopchick Hall is a digital planetarium 35 feet in diameter. It is used extensively for educational outreach as well as in undergraduate instruction, both for introductory astronomy courses and in classes for Earth and Space Science teaching majors.

Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Statement on Race and Diversity

The Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department is committed to combating racism through fostering inclusive and welcoming spaces for diverse students, and fostering student learning outcomes that expand the understanding of race: particularly, that race is not a biological reality, but that race and racism are cultural and social constructs that intersect with social class and other forms of social positionality to produce harm for people of color in our society and globally.

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News

Palmiotto and Students Conduct Archaeological Investigations at South Carolina Indigenous Sites

IUP students, including advanced undergraduate and graduate students, joined Dr. Palmiotto in the field with their archaeological colleagues from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Heritage Trust Program. There the team conducted investigations of sites within Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve in Charleston County, visited the iconic Fig Island Shell Ring complex, and met with representatives of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation (MCN).

  • 31 March 2025

Telescope Display and Full Moon Star Party

The IUP Cejka Planetarium will host a chance to view and learn about our telescopes, and if it is a clear night, we’ll also observe the Moon and sky.

  • 27 March 2025

Taylor Publishes on Nature of Faunal Turnover, Change in Ocean Chemistry Associated with Latest Cambrian Mass Extinction

Professor Emeritus John Taylor and colleagues published a new study based on faunal collections from a 50-meter interval of the Jones Ridge Limestone in easternmost Alaska. The study provided new, detailed faunal range data across the base of the North American Ibexian Series and geochemical data that confirm an associated shift in ocean chemistry.

  • 25 March 2025

Professor Emeritus Taylor Publishes New Insights Into Fossil Record from Northern Laurentia

Professor Emeritus John Taylor published a new study on the taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of Lotagnostus (Agnostida: Agnostidae) and associated trilobites and conodonts with IUP alumni James D. Loch ’83 and John E. Repetski ’69.

  • 21 March 2025
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Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  • Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences
  • Kopchick Hall, Room 114
    421 North Walk
     Indiana, PA 15705
  • Phone: 724-357-2440
Office Hours
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.