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3.00 Credits
The study of how humans and nature have interacted over time. Examines the ways that the natural landscape has shaped human societies and has been transformed by developing human civilizations. Global, regional, and local histories detail environmental changes due to shifting socio-economic forces. Also presents the development of the American conservation movement and its modern expressions. Cross-listed as HIST 4080.
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Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. Advanced topics in geographic analysis, including types of spatial data and their acquisition, field methods, Geographic Information Systems, spatial analysis, geostatistics, and cartographic design. Students will be expected to complete a course project that applies modern geographic techniques to a local problem. Course Fee
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. Survey of remote sensing methods, including aerial photography, satellite imagery, and digital image processing.
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Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. A study of atmospheric composition and structure, clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric motion and winds. Also examines organized weather systems, including air masses, fronts, and severe weather. A discussion of global climates includes circulation, wind systems, climate classification, and climate changes.
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A survey of the human geography of natural hazards, with emphasis on the U.S. Examines the fundamental concepts and issues regarding natural hazard risk and how environmental risk arises from the complex interaction between the physical environment and human society.
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3.00 Credits
A study of wetlands environments including an examination of physical properties, functions and values, and geographic variety and distribution.
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Examines, at local, national, and international levels, the organization of political space and its impact on political processes and patterns of control and conflict within society.
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A study of human culture from a geographic perspective, examining the distribution of humans and human activities across space and how social groups and actors use and attach meaning to places and spaces.
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A study of the nature of natural resources, their distribution, usage, and renewal. Addresses concepts that define resources and their allocation, the geographic dimensions of natural resources, as well as the effects of their exploitation. Topics may include forests, fisheries, minerals, natural amenities, tourism, water resources, human-environmental interaction, resource evaluation, and institutional influences on resource use and management.
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A study of the basic principles of ecology, resource economics, and environmental history as they relate to environmental management and resource conservation issues around the world. Addresses the social impacts of air, water, and soil pollution, human population growth, food production, deforestation, and many other environmental issues.
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