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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
As approved and to be arranged. 1-6 credits by permission of the dean.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the physical and human geographic patterns, providing a comprehensive background discussion of individual regions of the globe. Each region is analyzed in terms of its environmental base and resource distribution, population growth characteristics, culture, agricultural systems and rural development, industrialization and urbanization and political trends.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course using a process-distribution approach to explain weather systems, climates of the world, biogeography, soils, and landforms. An accompanying lab introduces topographic map reading, weather, and climate analysis geomorphology. 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the basic principles of human geography. Major topics to be covered include population, language, economics, urbanization, industrialization, globalization and the environment.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an examination of man's impact on the environment with particular emphasis on the processes of ecological change and the effects on the environment. Emphasis is placed on twentieth and twenty-first century changes and contemporary public issues.
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3.00 Credits
A geographic interpretation of the world's population size, distribution, composition and dynamics. Special emphasis is placed on the relationships between population and geographic, economic, resource, social and policy issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with and understanding of the relationship between politics and physical and human geography through the use of geographical techniques and insights developed in the field of politics. The influence of such factors as location, size, form, natural resources and population on the political development of nations and their roles in world politics will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the theory of international commodities trade; commercial policies and agreements among world's trading nations. The course also examines the role of transportation in determining movement and marketing of goods and international trade patterns, and payments.
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3.00 Credits
A study of present day cultures and their physical environment, with emphasis on the spatial analysis of population distribution, religions, economic development, technology levels, organization of urban and rural societies, and the varying impacts of cultures on environments.
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3.00 Credits
Economic geography attempts to answer a number of basic questions: Where is economic activity located? Why is economic activity located where it is? This course will introduce students to basic concepts in the field of economic geography, using a variety of descriptive and theoretical approaches. It will focus on the examination of the location of economic activities in the world and a discussion of the different ways of accounting for that location. Various elements of the natural, economic, social, and political environments are considered and their relative importance analyzed.
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