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4.00 Credits
Examination of the linkages between geography and tourism, the marketing of travel, and tourism and hospitality products. The course covers tourism and marketing research methods, marketing strategies, marketing planning, and marketing plan implementation with a focus on issues of tourism development. Students apply concepts and materials to a course research project related to tourism providers in west Michigan. The student studies global environments and transportation systems to analyze tourism and travel trends and opportunities. An examination of resort areas, tourist frequency patterns to various resorts, cultural opportunities, and perception of places through travel brochures and literature are included in the course. Theoretical assumptions underlying perceptions of place and mental maps of tourism and travel preferences are examined. For Tourism and Travel majors only. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: GEOG 3100. For Tourism majors only. Credits: 4 hours
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6.00 Credits
Provision for an advanced student to benefit by supplementary practical experiences in a particular branch of geography, either by assisting faculty engaged in research or by working in a departmentally-approved off-campus agency. Specific assignments are arranged in consultation with departmental advisors during the semester preceding that in which the student expects to enroll in 4120. The student may enroll for one additional semester, but no student will be allowed more than six hours total credit for 4120. For Geography majors and minors, and Tourism and Travel majors only. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Junior standing and consent of Department Chair. Credits: 2 to 6 hours
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the application of geographic theory, methods and techniques to the spatial distributions of plant and animal species. The course will explore both the physical and human dimensions of patterns and processes associated with species distributions, movement and conservation. Course themes will include such topics as: physical environment impacts on growth, development and distribution; global regions and ecoregions; agricultural production and domesticated species; movement of species (domestic, invasive); and epidemiology. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: GEOG 1000 or GEOG 1050. Credits: 3 hours
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2.00 Credits
This is a capstone course focusing on professional career expectations, skills, standards and ethics, portfolio development, website creation and management, and issues in career development. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: GEOG 3030. To be taken Senior year. For majors in the Geography Department only. Credits: 2 hours
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3.00 Credits
This is a pre-service course designed to enable students to meet professional expectations and requirement necessary for teaching geography/social studies in middle and high schools. The teaching methodologies that enhance social science inquiry are the focus. Content standards for the Michigan Social Studies Framework are applied. Meets secondary methods requirements in geography and political science. An alternate methods course to secondary history. Fulfills the requirement for the social studies group minor. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: GEOG 4600 must be taken concurrently or following enrollment in ED 3010 and 3020. Credits: 3 hours
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to basic principles of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with applications to a variety of problems using established data sources and repositories. Includes fundamental principles of cartographic design and communication. A first course in a curricular sequence developing GIS professional expertise. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Completion of departmental computer literacy proficiency. Notes: Prerequisites applicable to all 5000-level courses in Geography include 14 credit hours of geography, or consent of advisor and/or instructor Credits: 4 hours
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3.00 Credits
(Science credit) Studies at an advanced level in meteorology and climatology. Topics of current interest to atmospheric scientists are examined in depth. Regional climatic phenomena and their relation to atmospheric circulation patterns are also investigated. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: GEOG 2250 or consent of department. Notes: Prerequisites applicable to all 5000-level courses in Geography include 14 credit hours of geography, or consent of advisor and/or instructor Credits: 3 hours
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the practice of planning multimodal transportation systems including motorized transportation networks (roads, cars, and trucking), public transportation (buses and rail), paratransit, non-motorized transportation (trails, bikes and pedestrian), airlines and airports, freight (road, rail, water, and air), and information networks. Information processing applications covered in this course include GIS-T and Intelligent Transportation Systems. Credits: 3 hours
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3.00 Credits
Presents world patterns of agriculture, manufacture, or transportation which link global production and consumption. In any term, the course focuses upon one of these three economic sectors. Agriculture. Describes and analyzes the distribution of major crops and livestock, and their combinations in common farming operations. The spatial organization of agriculture through time is analyzed for selected areas. Industry. Evaluates the general distribution and locational factors associated with selected industries, giving particular attention both to models of industrial location and to the empirical interrelation of economic, technological, and political elements affecting the locational decision. Transportation. Emphasizes the historical evolution of transport systems in developed and developing nations, transport factors in location theory, techniques of transport analysis, the urban transport problem, and competitive and complementary characteristics of transport modes in differing political systems. < Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: GEOG 2050 and GEOG 2440 or consent of department. Notes: Prerequisites applicable to all 5000-level courses in Geography include 14 credit hours of geography, or consent of advisor and/or instructor Credits: 2 to 3 hours
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Each course listed under this general title is a concentrated study of one of the principal subdivisions of human geography. The scope and principal themes of each specialized field are reviewed, with consideration given to current research on selected problems. 1. Cultural Geography. Techniques of spatial analysis applicable to the study of humans and their environment. The place of origin, diffusion, and present distribution of selected cultural patterns will be traced with emphasis given to cultural traits which strongly influence human occupancy of the earth's surface. 2. Historical Geography. Studies of geographic and related features which have combined to influence the course of historical development. Thiscourse will concentrate on a particular region and/or period of time during each semester in which it is offered. Each specialization will be designated in the class schedule. 3. Political Geography. General survey of the principles and the applied aspects of political geography; primary emphasis on the physical and cultural resource bases and conflicts of national states, the assessment of location, boundary delimitation and the territorial sea, politically-organized territories within the administrative hierarchy, and electoral geography. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: GEOG 3030, or GEOG 2050 or GEOG 2440, or by consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit. Credits: 2 to 3 hours
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