|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This course will examine the current rates of global environmental change and potential causes in the context of Earth's natural climate variability. The course will follow a seminar format. Students will read and discuss published articles on current and emerging theories of forcing mechanisms in the Earth's systems. 3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
An examination of the geographic underpinnings and implications of languages, literatures, and jurisprudence. The course explores languages' historic rootedness in the interactions between human beings and their surroundings; the varying geographic expressiveness and discrimination of languages; the effect and significance of literary evocations of landscapes; and the cultural and environmental geographic content of the language of law. Readings, lectures, discussions, writing. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Offered: On demand. Also offered as GEOG 5510. 3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
An examination of the techniques, assumptions, psychology, and cultural implications of mapping from the Stone Age to the age of satellites and the computerized Geographic Information System. Readings, lectures, discussions, writing. Offered: On demand. Also offered as GEOG 5515. 3 hrs
-
1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Individual research and study of a selected topic in geography, meteorology or earth science. Prerequisites: Approval of instructor. On demand. 1-3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
Paleoecology will focus on questions addressing past environments and past climates based on the ecology of microfossils. Micro-organisms are very sensitive to a wide variety of environmental conditions including temperature, precipitation, hydrology, water chemistry, salinity, habitat, and pollution. The fossil remains of these organisms are used as proxy indicators for reconstructing past environmental conditions, climate change, vegetation dynamics, and human impacts. Students will have the opportunity to process microfossils and make interpretations based on analysis data. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor Offered: Every other Fall semester 3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
Theories regarding the origins of energy resources with emphasis on hydrocarbon fuels. Practical problems of exploration, production, storage and conservation of energy resources. Discussion of estimated national and worldwide energy supplies, reserves and alternate sources in relation to environmental concerns. Three hours lecture, occasional field trips. Prerequisite(s): ENV-SCI 110R; GEOLOGY 220 recommended. Offered: On demand. 3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines geomorphological and archaeological methods used in reconstructing sites, settlement patterns, and paleoenvironments. Explores dating methods, soils, and stratigraphy as tools for studying landscape evolution and human occupation. Prerequisites: GEOG 314 or GEOLOGY 314, or permission of instructor. Offered: On demand 3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
Analysis of areal patterns of population distribution, composition, migrations and growth as well as their causes and consequences upon the cultural landscape. The relationships between population regions and resource or socio-economic regions are emphasized. Offered: On demand. 3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
This course reviews earth climatic history and focuses on major mechanisms for global and regional climate change. Methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction are examined, including analysis of proxy data and climate modeling. Application of these methods toward prediction of future climate change is also explored. Also offered as GEOG 5542. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 314 or GEOLOGY 314, and GEOG 215, or permission of instructor. Offered: On demand. 3 hrs
-
3.00 Credits
This course will focus on advanced computation methods for the analysis and modeling of complex and often non-deterministic processes in the spatial and environmental sciences. Students will be introduced to innovative techniques for analyzing large datasets with attribute spaces of very high dimensionality, including hyper-spectral remote sensing data. Prerequisite: GEOG 402 or permission of instructor Offered: On demand 3 hrs
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|