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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the fundamentals of the atmospheric environment and an analysis of synoptic-scale climatological phenomena. Particular attention is given to atmospheric circulation, weather patterns, and weather events taking place in North America. Prerequisites: GEOG 110 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered when demand is sufficient.
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3.00 Credits
A brief history of geographic thought and an introduction to current issues in geography. Prerequisites: Senior (majors or minors) or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an intensive field experience, during which students are required to use their powers of observation continuously. Emphasis is on the interpretation of the total physical and human landscape, and those factors which produce spatial variations in landscape pattern and structure. Evening meetings and field trips required. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor only. Prerequisites: Geography major or permission of instructor. Credits: 1(1-0). Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Global issues and problems are studied within the context of a world systems approach to political geography. Historic and modern processes associated with imperialism, territory, the state, nations, and international organizations are examined. Prerequisites: GEOG 102 or GEOG 123, or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered when demand is sufficient.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the spatial distribution and spatial structure of urban places. A survey of the history of urbanization, examining the world distribution of cities from pre-history to the present. The role and structure of a city in modern industrial society. A survey of urban problems, and research and planning approaches to these problems. Prerequisites: GEOG 102 or GEOG 110 or GEOG 123 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to quantitative research methods in geography. The course emphasizes research design, evidence and its compilation, analytic methods applied to spatial problems, and the nature of geographical inference. The student is introduced to various analytical approaches to North American urban problems and milieux. EDP applications of geographical models and concepts reveal regularities of pattern and spatial behavior and stress the explanatory focus of modern geography. Prerequisites: GEOG 102 or GEOG 110, or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered every year.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to give the geography student an opportunity to do geographic research under supervision. Special emphasis is placed on attacking specific problems involving field work in which the student collects, interprets, and reports findings. Prerequisites: GEOG 102 or GEOG 110, or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered when demand is sufficient.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history, process, and debates surrounding economic globalization. Particular topics include the origins of 20th century globalization and the degree to which the geography and politics of contemporary global economic patterns differ from past eras of economic expansionism and integration. The investigation of contemporary geographies of trade, investment and labor illuminates common myths and debates surrounding the behavior of states and corporations and impacts of global economic integration on culture, society and environment. Prerequisites: GEOG 102 or GEOG 123 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0).
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys topics regarding climate change and climate variability. The course surveys methods of paleoclimate reconstruction, climate history of the most recent 1000 years, climate change theories, methods of observational climate analysis, and climate modeling. Special attention is given to the response of Earth\'s natural systems (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere) to past, present, or projected changes in climate. Reviews current topics in climate change and the channels through which climate change research is done. Prerequisites: GEOG 110 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered every other year during either fall or spring semester when demand is sufficient.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course provides a detailed examination of conceptual issues presented in the introductory GIS class. It also involves additional material on data acquisition, data structures, spatial data standards and error analysis, spatial analysis operations, the effects of geographical information science on society, and GIS applications. Prerequi- sites: GEOG 295 or permission of instructor. Credits: 3(3-0). Offered every spring.
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