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3.00 Credits
Course concentrates on the southwest portion of the Middle East. The northern tier of states in Africa is also considered. The approach is largely cultural-historical, set within the political and physical framework. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the cultural and physical features of Australia, New Zealand and the islands of the Pacific with emphasis on the geographic factors influencing the present landscape. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the regions of southern Europe, northern Africa, and southwest Asia, which are located on the coasts and immediately adjacent areas of the Mediterranean. Specialized landscapes reflect the long period of settlement and development within a unique physical and cultural geographic environment. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
Basic concepts of map scale, relief, direction, symbolization and map analysis are presented. Exercises familiarize students with a variety of map types and techniques of data collection and measurement from maps, and the interpretation of physical and cultural features. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the science of analytical map development employing computer cartographic technologies. Concepts stress data acquisition, spatial analysis, and data display coupled with theory of cartographic compilation and generalization to produce analytically useful maps. Required of B.S. Cartography majors and Cartography minors.
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3.00 Credits
The course details the use of computer-assisted cartography in analytic choropleth map development including spatial data selection and analysis, coordinate transformation, areal and Boolean map analysis, and digital choropleth map comparison. Three lecture hours per week. Required of B.S. Cartography majors; Elective for others. Prerequisite: GGR240 or GGR241 or permission of Department Chairperson.
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Maps are a geographer's primary tool, and their creation is the function of cartography. The course acquaints students with cartographic traditions of selected cultures and times, focuses on American maps from the 19th and 20th centuries as archival resources, and examines the elements of cartographic style. Three lecture hours per week.
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An analysis of the human and physical geographies of Eastern Europe, Russia, the Southern Caucuses and Central Asia. Special attention will be paid to the contemporary problems of the region and the geographic influences of these problems, for example; the rise of nationalism in the region, the new role of local governance, the collapse of central planning and its impact on regional development, major environmental crises that were inherited from the Soviet era and the establishment of new ties with its neighbors including: China, Afghanistan, and the European Union. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the geographies of globalization. Four geographical dimensions of globalization will be studied: economic geographies, geopolitics, socio-cultural geographies and the impact of globalization on the biophysical environment. The goal of this course is to help students become familiar with the debates surrounding globalization, the geographical changes and consequences that are associated with the term and the theoretical constructs that have been employed to explain the geographies of globalization. Case studies from around the world will be used to develop an appreciation of global geographical changes. Three lecture hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the types, causes, formation and life cycle, frequencies, locations, and environmental impacts of severe and unusual weather. Students will have the opportunity to become certified as an official National Weather Service/SKYWARN severe weather spotter. Three lecture hours per week.
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