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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Examines social, political, economic, and cultural processes creating the geographical worlds in which we live, and how these spatial relationships shape our everyday lives. Studies urban growth, geopolitics, agricultural development and change, economic growth and decline, population dynamics, and migration exploring both how these processes work at global scale as well as shape geographies of particular places. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: geography.
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3.00 Credits
Familiarizes students with spatial and ecological perspectives on economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental changes. Examines roles of transnational corporations, global media, world cities, food security, labor, migration, human rights, ethnicity, nationalism, resources, environmental degradation, and sustainable development in global change. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: geography.
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3.00 Credits
Covers various topics not normally covered in the curriculum. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours within a term.
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4.00 Credits
Overviews the vital role cartography plays in modern society and contemporary science. Includes fundamentals of reading and creating maps for research and enjoyment. Lab provides hands-on experience with computer-based methods for creating useful maps.
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3.00 Credits
Examines nature-culture interactions and the effects of development and resource use on environmental quality, as well as practical efforts to manage and protect the environment. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: geography.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces parametric and distribution-free statistics, emphasizing applications to earth science problems. Not open to students who have taken a college-level statistics course. Restricted to junior and senior geography, geology, and environmental studies majors. Same as GEOL 3023.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the fundamentals of cartography---the science and art of map design. Emphasis on map projections, symbolization, and the design of maps with computers. Students produce series of thematic maps with modern computer-assisted techniques. Basic familiarity with computers strongly recommended. Restricted to junior or senior GEOG/ENVS majors.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasizes use of aerial and space photography in geographic research. Includes properties and systematic application of imagery in the photographable portion of the spectrum for the evaluation of urban, transportation, landform, and vegetation features. Restricted to junior and senior geography and environmental studies majors.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys mountain environments and their human use with illustrations from temperate and tropical mountain areas.
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3.00 Credits
Prereqs., ATOC 1050 and 1060, or GEOG 3601/ATOC 3600/ ENVS 3600, OR GEOG 1001 and 1-semester calculus. Same as ATOC 3300. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural science.
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