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The cultural landscape reveals the intricate tapestry of human habitation and forms a primary document for geographic research. Using several techniques students examine the cultural organization of the landscape. By understanding the landscape, students will have greater insights into economic activity, technological levels, the built environment, and cultural values. Students will undertake a series of projects to explore the world around them. Three lecture hours per week.
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Study of the structure and organization of political areas at different levels and the impact of selected geographic phenomena on their development and interaction. Three lecture hours per week. Concentration elective, B.S. Geography, Travel and Tourism. Elective for others.
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Study of the regional and national variations in population size, structure, and growth and the consequences for social and economic development. Case studies in the dynamics of migration and government population policies. Three lecture hours per week.
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are powerful forms of spatial information processing. Incorporating analytic geographic techniques to capture, maintain, analyze, and display data, GIS generate unique spatial information widely used by both the public and private sectors. Specifically, this course details the analytical and technical development and the applied uses of GIS for business, environmental, and social applications. Three lecture hours per week. Required of B.S. Cartography, B.S. Geography, Regional Development and Planning, Environmental, and Natural Resource Management concentrations. Elective for others.
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An introduction to various computer applications in geography using one or more selected computer languages, including FORTRAN, the computer language of scientists and engineers. Problems are selected from both the social science and natural science domains of the discipline of geography. Students will learn how to link computer model-generated output to computer graphics routines. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: Completion of Basic College Math Competency, one 200 level Geography course, GGR240 or GGR241, or permission of the Department Chairperson.
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This course serves as an introduction to the basic facts and concepts of biogeography. It will review the biogeographical and other enviromental controls which help to explain distribution of plants and animals. It will bring together specialized subdisciplines and information of both plants and animals in order to explain patterns of geographic distributions of organisms in terms of the historical and contemporary environmental processes that have caused them. Finally, the course will review in detail the distributions of contemporary plant and animal groups with a special focus on North America. Computer analysis will be used to explore these concepts. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisite: One introductory natural science course or permission of the Department Chairperson.
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An introduction to the study of atmospheric processes near the ground. Emphasis on flows of energy and matter between the earth's soil, water, vegetative, and human-built surfaces and the atmosphere. The course illustrates the role of the atmosphere in the environmental sciences and its applications in geography, agriculture, forestry, ecology, engineering, and planning. Three lecture hours per week. Prerequisites: GGR100P or GGR101P and GGR102P or GLS100 and Basic College Math Competency or permission of the Department Chairperson.
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Designed to prepare planners to work effectively in an urban/suburban setting. Planners work as a part of a team to create an acceptable work/home environment, and as such, the emphasis shall include a review of the role of the policy maker, the use of growth-control techniques, the preparation of comprehensive plans with citizen participation, and the careful examination of various land uses and potential impacts of decisions made on future land uses on such areas as the availability of housing, traffic, the economy, the environment, the quality of life and the ability of the community to provide services. Three lecture hours per week.
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The focus of the course is the collection, analysis, and application of data related to environmental planning in urban-suburban areas. The activities of regulating agencies are examined. Surface water runoff, groundwater supply and quality, the upland/wetland boundary, and pollution detection are major areas of concern. Three lecture hours per week, plus local field trips.
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3.00 Credits
Offered to third year students in the Urban and Environmental Planning Concentration in preparation for the fourth year Internship in a public or private planning agency. Basic instruction in the writing of a resume and a cover letter will be followed by a discussion on the effective use of interviews to secure employment. Graduate School as an option discussed. Each student will, using suggested references, conduct a thorough "job search" within the greater Boston area. Two lecture hours per week; each student will be placed in one or two planning agencies in the last half of the semester for six hours per week in order to become acquainted with structure and operation of a planning agency. Prerequisites: GGR205, GGR265 and GGR335 or GGR336.
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