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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Special Topic courses are offered on an experimental or temporary basis to explore topics that are not included in the established curriculum. A given topic may be offered under any special topic identity no more than three times. Special topics numbered 481 are primarily for upper-level undergraduate students.
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3.00 Credits
The physical environment is modified by human activities, largely as a consequence of the ways in which societies value and use earth's natural resources, but human activities and distributions are, in turn, influenced by earth's physical features and processes. These themes are addressed by examining the geography of environmental impacts such as tropical deforestation, global climate change, energy development, urban growth, and agricultural land use. Also considered are natural hazards such as hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and flooding.
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3.00 Credits
A conceptually based introductory-level geography course that focuses on the American landscape. Includes mapping culture regions; tracing settlement patterns; resource use; environmental perceptions; the interplay of urbanization, industrialization, postindustrialization, and spatial mobility; the occurrence of economically disadvantaged landscapes; and the role individuals and society have in the creation of the geographic landscape.
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3.00 Credits
Relates theories of the discipline of geography to current world issues and global patterns. Emphasizes local versus global strategies of resource management, spatial legacies of colonialism, contemporary multiscale issues with workforce migration, urban structure, disease, and globalization. Focuses on global patterns of development through comparative approaches and understanding of human and physical geographic characteristics of world regions.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces principles of thematic map construction. Emphasizes techniques of choropleth mapping and the production of scientific graphs and charts.Previously Offered As: (Also offered as RGPL 213; may not be taken for duplicate credit.)
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes the spatial characteristics of the American National Park System. Examines the national parks idea with respect to wilderness conservation, preservation, and public presentation of natural and historic sites and landscapes; investigates the physical geography of national parks as defined by ecoregions (physiography, climate, natural vegetation); and evaluates landscape designs within the National Parks System relative to dominant planning techniques of the past and present.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces human geography, including maps, population, ethnicity and race, agriculture, resources and the environment, economic organization of space, language, religion, political geography, and urban geography. Covers themes of human relationships with the natural environment, culture regions, spatial diffusion, globalization, and cultural landscapes.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to geographic concepts, methods, and skills related to spatial patterns of production, consumption, and exchange over the earth's surface. Emphasizes a global perspective using a combination of theoretical and empirical concepts.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces basic concepts of urban morphology and landscapes including site, situation, function, urban land use, urban structure, and urban hierarchy. Explores relationships between urban structure and urban planning.Previously Offered As: (Also offered as RGPL 232; may not be taken for duplicate credit.)
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3.00 Credits
Regions of Pennsylvania are examined in detail to identify man-environment relationships. Soils, topography, climate, vegetation, population, and economic patterns are studied.
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