# CEGU

**Source**: https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/
**Parent**: https://cegu.uchicago.edu/

The CEGU undergraduate major prepares students to understand and confront the wide-ranging societal, historical, and spatial dimensions of contemporary planetary environmental crises, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and other forms of large-scale socio-environmental transformation. Such issues are explored in diverse spaces, including cities and metropolitan regions; zones of extraction, agriculture, energy production and waste; dispersed settlement spaces and village ecologies; rangeland, forest and jungle landscapes; remote wildlands; and coastlines, rivers, watersheds, and oceans. The curriculum emphasizes a plurality of theoretical approaches to the histories and geographies of socio-environmental transformation, underscoring the contested character of environmental knowledge in a polarized and turbulent world order.

CEGU is also home to additional undergraduate initiatives including [Expositions Magazine](https://voices.uchicago.edu/expositionsmagazine/)↗—a student-written magazine presenting environmental and urban scholarship, creative writing, and visual art—and the Frizzell Learning and Speaker Series—a student-led endowed lecture series. CEGU also regularly hosts [student activities and events](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/events/students/), [internships](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/opportunities/), and discussions with alumni, community leaders and faculty.

#### **[Major and Minor in Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU)](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/cegu-major-minor/)**

#### **[Calumet Quarter 2026: The Power of Place](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/cegu-major-minor/calumet-quarter/)**

#### **[Undergraduate Courses](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/courses/2025-26/)**

#### **[Undergraduate Research & Travel Funding](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/cegu-major-minor/grants/)**

#### [**Program Advising and Office Hours**](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/cegu-major-minor/advising-and-office-hours/)

#### [**Experiential Learning**](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/experiential-learning/)

#### [**Petitions and Forms**](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/cegu-major-minor/petitions-and-forms/)

#### [**Opportunities for Students**](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/opportunities/)

#### [**Frizzell Family Learning and Speaker Series**](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/undergraduate-studies/frizzell-series/)