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3.00 Credits
This course examines Earth's climate system, and the way its components interact to produce major weather and climate features. Examples include tornadoes, hurricanes, jet streams, El Niño, and the causes and consequences of climate change. When you finish this course, you will better understand our complex atmosphere, and the ways in which it affects us all.
Prerequisite:
GEO 1130 and GEOG 1000 and GEOG 101 and GEOG 1010 and GEOG 1500
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3.00 Credits
This course explores a range of environmental issues from local to global contexts, considering their root causes, impacts, and interconnections to social and economic factors. Topics typically include air and water quality, food production, forests, consumption and waste/resource management, and the overarching issue of climate change. The course also identifies solutions to these challenges toward the creation of a more sustainable, equitable and healthy world for all. When you finish this course, you will better understand how people have transformed the environment and your own ability to contribute to solutions.
Prerequisite:
BTNY 140 and BTNY 1403 and GEOG 1000 and GEOG 101 and GEOG 1010
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of physical properties, values, economic, and legal issues associated with wetland environments. Since wetlands in different places have many different attributes, a detailed examination is made of wetland environments in different parts of the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This class explores the complexity of a desert environment using a variety of learning materials such as satellite imagery, local to global databases, literature, podcasts, and documentaries. Students will discern the natural forces responsible for creating features of desert landscapes throughout the world. The class also explores how arid environments have shaped cultural practices and the management of resources in areas with little water and those facing climate change. Students will likely participate in brief local field work either during class time or on their own. After taking this class, students will understand why water is scarce in certain places, what forms the unique features of arid lands including those in Utah, and the delicate process of sustaining life in such environments.
Prerequisite:
GEO 1060 and GEOG 1000 and GEOG 1500
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the physical environments of high altitude and high latitude places, the ways in which humans interact with these environments, and their broader roles within the large Earth systems. Topics will include causes and consequences of avalanches, climatic characteristics of the Arctic, glacier behavior, sea ice, and the responses of human physiology to high altitudes.
Prerequisite:
GEO 1060 and GEOG 1000 and GEOG 1500
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3.00 Credits
This course explores cities-the urban and suburban places where most of us in the world choose to live. In this course we will study the historical development of cities, the geography of how cities continue to grow and change, and how cities interact with their changing natural environments. When you finish this course, you will understand how cities work and be prepared to participate in a more sustainable urban future.
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3.00 Credits
A geographic analysis of America's past featuring an examination of cultural development in different parts of the United States and how this has produced many distinct regional landscapes throughout the country.
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3.00 Credits
More than anything else, economic activity binds the world's places, resources, producers, consumers, markets, governments, technology, and citizens. This global development produces both extravagant wealth and searing poverty, and it is rapidly exhausting the planet's natural environment. This course takes students from local to global as it explores the stunning force of economic activity. When you finish this course, you will better understand the power and peril of the global economy.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the geography of the fast-growing and ever-changing state of Utah. Through explorations of public land, water, cities, tourism, environmental issues, population, and political economies this course provides a foundation for understanding Utah and how the state fits in the regional context of the American West. When you finish this course, you will be prepared to engage more thoughtfully with the challenges and opportunities of Utah and the American West.
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3.00 Credits
From Mayan, Aztec, and Incan beginnings to Conquest and Colonization by European powers, and later U.S. hegemony, this region of extraordinary natural beauty and diversity has been the subject of foreign intervention and control. Its contemporary geography is a legacy of the mighty forces that created the Amazon and the Andes as well as the clash of cultures from abroad, and now rapid and transformative change. When you finish this course, you will be able to chart the influences that have shaped this fascinating region.
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