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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered occasionally. Exploration of geographic topics, tools or techniques of current interest. Can be repeated as course content changes.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall and spring. The course themes are human culture, cultural variations over the face of the Earth and how these variations are related to selected global issues. Topics covered include world demographics, world religions and languages, patterns of human migration, political systems and human conflict, agricultural systems, and impact on the physical world.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered spring. This course evaluates human-environment interactions from a holistic point of view. It incorporates geographic perspectives of these interactions, which include political, cultural, social, economic and ethical factors that influence how people perceive, impact and manage the natural world. The course will emphasize geographic theories of resource use, humans as part of the landscape and human vulnerability to environmental changes. Prerequisites: GEOG 205 and GEOG 210.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered fall and spring. An introduction to population measurement, sources of population data and modern population problems. Topics include distribution, the changing age structure and migration issues affecting the U.S. At the global scale, topics include distribution, global migration patterns, the refugee crisis and prospects for feeding the rapidly increasing human population.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits. Offered fall and spring. Topics from the classical period to the modern period include 20th century theories and paradigm shifts involving cultural geography, physical geography, human-environment traditions, regional geographies and modeling. Diverse philosophies such as quantitative/positivist, qualitative/humanistic social theory and GIS are viewed for their contributions to the discipline of geography. Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
1-4 repeatable credits, no limit. Courses cover environmental issues such as air pollution, forest and wildlife management, water, resource management, soils and land use, and energy and the environment (among other topics). Courses examine the interface between humans and environmental systems while addressing the impact of social, economic and political systems and activities on the environment. May be repeated as course content changes.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered spring. In this course an investigation is made of a selected number of environmental problem areas around the world. Some examples include the temperate rainforest of Valdivia, South America, the tropical rainforests of Borneo and the Aral Sea of Eastern Europe. In the course, students will explore physical aspects of each environment and explore human impact and potential solutions to the problems.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered spring. This course exposes students to the methods and techniques commonly used by geographers while conducting fieldwork. The course will cover identifying and defining a researchable project, designing and testing data collection methods, and different methods of collecting, recording and presenting data. Students will also become familiar with various types of field equipment.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered once a year. This course addresses global change and human development. Conservation, sustainability and development are core themes that will be related to current changes occurring on a global scale. Global changes to be discussed in the course related to the climate, biodiversity, natural resources and human populations. Sustainability will be introduced as a dimension of human development. Prerequisite: GEOG 290.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits. Offered spring. This course covers four distinct areas: the foundation of agriculture, the nature and distribution of soils on a global basis; the history of agriculture from the original selection of domestic crops to the 20th century; modern industrial agriculture and trade; and alternatives to chemical and energy intensive agriculture in the 21st century. Prerequisites: GEOG 290 or permission of instructor.
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