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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Intermittent Spring and Summer Semesters) This course introduces students to the fundamentals of landscape construction, including reading and interpreting landscape blueprints, site layout employing building levels and measuring devices, emplacement of slope, grade and drainage stakes, and the safe operation of tools and con-struction equipment commonly employed in landscaping.
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5.00 Credits
5 credits (Intermittent Spring and Summer Semesters) This course provides the student and orientation to the field of landscape construction employing heavy equip-ment and hand tools to successfully develop terrain from an unimproved state to a finish grade. Identification of heavy equipment machinery, operational safety, operational proce-dures, maintenance of equipment and operating conditions will be presented. Each student will be employed in a work experience environment operating a front end loader, bull-dozer, landscape tractor, skidster and various hand tools.
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10.00 Credits
10 credits (Summer Semester) Prerequisites: EQOP 105, EQOP 110. This course requires 400 hours of job site experience for the student employed as an inter equipment operator with a local business.
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1.00 Credits
1 credit (Fall and Spring Semesters) A mini-course designed to develop informed, critical under-standing within students. Examines the language and his-torical impact of the motion picture industry from the silent era to contemporary filmmaking. Course may be repeated for a total of four credits. Students receiving financial aid or veterans' benefits should check with the Financial Aid Of-fice before repeating this course.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits (Fall Semester) Introduction to physical earth systems--meteorology, soils, vegetation types and distribution, oceanography, land-forms. Focus on the use of geographic tools and analysis to understand spatial relationships of physical and biological phenomena on Earth, and how these relationships affect humans. This course is cross-referenced with NSCI 101NL.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) A survey of world geographical regions, including the unique physical environment, population and settlement patterns, cultural diversity, political systems and economic and social status. Focus is on globalization, its effect on the region's environment, politics and economics, and how the regions effect globalization trends.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Spring Semester) A topical approach to geographic analysis of humans and their environment, including population, migration, culture, development, industry, urban patterns. Uses natural science concepts to understand human behavior. Focus is on key issues within a geographic framework, answering where and why.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Intermittently) An in-depth examination of North America (U.S. and Canada) that focuses on the spatial arrangement and inter-action of physical, cultural, economic and social elements that shape the unique identity of this region.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits (Spring Semester) An in-depth look at the physical and socioeconomic charac-teristics of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and western Mon-tana, with particular emphasis on the regional economy, resource problems and policies. GEOL 100NL Introduction to Earth Science 4 credits (Fall and Spring Semesters) A survey, non-sequence course designed for the non-science major. Subjects include origin and history of the earth and solar system; Earth materials (minerals and rocks), action of wind, water and ice on the Earth's surface; landforms and mountain-building processes; the physical ocean environ-ment. Labs stress the application of lecture topics. This course is cross-referenced with NSCI 100NL.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits (Spring Semester) Basic concepts of earth materials and processes--minerals, sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, the rock cycle, weathering, erosion and development of landforms. Introduction to plate tectonics, volcanism, mountain build-ing, continental structure, evolution and structural geology. Lab exercises to illustrate all aspects of lectures.
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