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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the landforms, climate, ecology, populations, economy, politics, and cultures of the regions of the world. Through attention to particular regions and their inter-relations, we will examine global issues such as development, migration, inequality, urbanization, nationalism, conflict, trade, and climate change.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines theories, conflicts, and crises in global natural resource utilization. We will explore the causes of looming social and ecological threats and opportunities in areas such as global warming, food security, water wars, pollution, biodiversity, inequality, and development. We will evaluate debates over population and scarcity, commodities and institutions, environmental ethics, political economy, and socio-ecological change, and use them to inform our understandings of the promises and pitfalls of proposed personal, cultural, economic, and political solutions to resource dilemmas.
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4.00 Credits
Why are some areas wealthy and some areas poor? Why do particular kinds of economic activities cluster in regions like Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and China's Pearl River Delta? How do landscape, politics, and culture shape economic fortunes? There are spatial-geographic dimensions to all global economic activities: resource extraction, production, work, logistics, consumption, finance, debt, technological innovation, migration, and social reproduction. Considering geographic scales from the household division of labor up through global commodity chains, we'll explore the historical development, current dilemmas, and future directions of the world economy- with an eye towards crucial questions of growth, sustainability, and justice.
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4.00 Credits
This course presents the fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will learn how to design and create digital maps, and will master the basic techniques of spatial analysis. We will use maps and other GIS tools to uncover the hidden geo-spatial relationships that shape the world around us. Through lectures, discussion, and hands-on exercises and projects, the course will explore the many applications of GIS in the social sciences and environmental sciences as well as in the humanities, public policy and urban affairs.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Involves practical work in placements with organizations such as non-profits, businesses, government agencies, museums, or archives. Requires permission of Geography minor coordinator. Graded on a pass/fail basis. This course counts towards the Geography Minor.
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4.00 Credits
Beginning German with an emphasis on German culture, as well as understanding and speaking German in practical situations. Includes practice in reading and writing. Not open to native speakers of German. Not open to students with 2+ years of high school German. Students cannot take GER 101, 102, 201, or 202 concurrently.
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4.00 Credits
Beginning German with an emphasis on German culture, as well as understanding and speaking German in practical situations. Includes practice in reading and writing. GER 101 (or equivalent skills). Not open to native speakers of German. Students cannot take GER 101, 102, 201, or 202 concurrently.
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4.00 Credits
Develops a greater understanding of German culture and everyday German, as well as speaking, reading and writing skills. GER 102 (or equivalent skills). Not open to native speakers of German. Students cannot take GER 101, 102, 201, or 202 concurrently.
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