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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course is the study of practical applications of conservation theory, including such topics as wildlife management, forest and grassland management, outdoor recreation resource management, soil conservation (including the organic approach) and energy conservation. Same as ERS 21. Three hours lecture when offered for three credits; three hours lecture, three hours fieldwork when offered for four credits. Prerequisite of GGR 11 is required.
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3.00 Credits
This course intends to help students develop a critical and multidisciplinary approach to the study of natural and human triggered disasters. Extreme phenomena, such as earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, hurricanes, landslides, and floods, are studied both from a geophysical approach to understand their genesis/evolution, and from the socio-economic approach to understand their impact on the built environment. Current strategies for the management and control of emergencies, forecast technologies and disaster mitigation planning, as well as sustainable development policies for recovery and reconstruction after disaster will be discussed. ERS 22 cross-listed as GGR 22. Prerequisistes of ERS 1 or GLY 1 and ERS 2 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the area differentiation of economic activities over the surface of the earth, and the physical and human environmental factors affecting the geographical pattern of economic activity. Same as ECO 25.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and contemporary process of urbanization. Topics covered include the development of cities in North America and various developing countries; the internal economic, social, and cultural geography of cities; urban governance; and the rise of global cities. Students are introduced to competing theoretical models in urban geography and explore urbanization at various geographic scales from the local to the global.
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3.00 Credits
The geography of modern life - our homes, roads, commercial centers, parks, and beaches - is an outgrowth of planning. Students examine key planners of the past 125 years to understand how we got here, traffic jams and all. Students explore how contemporary planners balance the complex interconnections among taxes, housing, environmental quality, transportation, economic development, and cultural diversity. Challenging questions about whether planners can move beyond today's fixation on economics and security and create cities that are more joyful, healthy, and socially just are considered. Same as ERS 27.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to quantitative methods in geography. Emphasis is on practical solutions to geographic problems. An analysis of area relations arising in natural situations and in human land use is examined including patterns associated with economic, social, and political aspects of human use of the earth. Topics covered include graph reading, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, statistical independence, nearest neighbor analysis and Poisson models.
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3.00 Credits
Global climate change will shape human societies in profound ways and force us to make difficult choices in the 21st century. The first half of the course will emphasize how mass media, environmentalists, and global warming critics selectively filter the work of scientists and the International Panel on Climate Change, IPPC. The second half of the semester will examine the human impacts of climate change on our economy, cities, ecological systems, and human health systems.
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3.00 Credits
The course attempts to explain the differential geographical patterns produced by human beings in their occupancy of the Earth: ethnic, religious, and linguistic factors and their world, social, economic and political impact. The course covers population and settlement geography such as world demographic distribution patterns, problems of population growth and overpopulation and the distribution of human settlement forms across the earth. For students in the Program for Academic Success. Four hours lecture/recitation. Must be in Program for Academic Success.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to physical geography, the Earth and its relationship to the Sun, an introduction to map projections, meteorology and world climates, a consideration of the biogeographical features, world soils and vegetation. Same as ERS 1. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory.
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3.00 Credits
The objective of the course is to provide an understanding of the geographical mosaic of ways of life on the Earth, "traditional" and "modern," "underdeveloped" and "developed." A space-time approach is adopted to consider the relationship between human beings and the natural environment and to describe the development of technology as a factor in the evaluation and use of earth resources. Commencing with the "clean slate" of the natural earth, the course describes human evolution on the planet and the various technological stages and their repercussions through which mankind has "progressed": the Old Stone Age way of life; the emergence of the Neolithic agricultural revolution and traditional farming; the modern Technological Revolution and the problems it has brought; the population explosion and hunger; and the disparity between the "have" and "have not" nations of the world. Must be in Honors Program
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