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1.00 Credits
An examination of viticultural practices and winemaking operations in Sonoma County. This course may be taken independent of GEOG 311. Includes preliminary lectures and a weekend field trip. A fee will be charged for this course.
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2.00 Credits
Field experience in areas beyond the normal range of GEOG 314A and 314B, including, but not limited to, attending professional meetings in nearby states. Course titles and contents may vary and may be repeated for credit. See the current Schedule of Classes for particular offerings. A fee will be charged for this course. Up to 2 units of GEOG 314 may be counted toward the major.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Field experience in areas outside of the United States, including but not limited to Central and South America (Ecuador). Course titles and contents may vary and may be repeated for credit. See the current Schedule of Classes for particular offerings. A fee will be charged for this course. Permission of the instructor is required before registration.
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1.00 Credits
The Global Positioning System (GPS) allows you to pinpoint your exact location anywhere on Earth. This course covers the basics of how GPS works and exposes the student to some of the ways GPS technologies are being used to solve realworld problems. Major focus is placed on providing students with hands-on experience collecting field data and integrating GPS data into a geographic information system (GIS) database. State-of-the-art software and GPS receivers are used for planning, implementing, and evaluating a GPS project.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the student an opportunity to do fieldwork in an alternate cultural setting. The field experience consists of two stages: (1) observation of physical and cultural features in the northern and central sections of the peninsula; and (2) team studies of towns and villages involving interviewing, data collection, and mapping. The course includes a weekly lecture conducted on campus. A fee will be charged for this course. Check with instructor for amount. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
An inquiry into the structure and characteristics of political units in order to compare the concepts of state and nation-state. The nature of boundaries, frontiers, and shatter zones is studied in detail, and the development of geopolitical theories is traced.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the settlement history of North America and of the changing concepts of man-environment relationships in the chronology of the Europeanization of the American landscape. Investigations into where and why people settled as they did, and the origins of the economic and spatial relationships that constitute the present American scene will be the focus of the course.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the development of agriculture from its origins to its modern forms. It discusses the historical development and current structure of five agricultural systems: small and large corporate farms in the development of the world, as well as traditional peasant production systems, plantations, and green revolution forms in the developing world. It then considers issues such as world hunger, food aid, global commodity trade, and the effect of biotechnology in both the developed and developing world.
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3.00 Credits
Studies aspects of demography, migration, and the spatial dimension of social organization. Included in the course are the spatial perspectives of social well-being, poverty, crime, and ethnicity. The spatial structure of human settlement, as well as political, religious, and social values will be discussed. Satisfies upper-division GE, category E (Integrated Person).
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4.00 Credits
This class explores the use and management of natural resources. Each year, it focuses on a different set of renewable and non-renewable resources, such as water, oil, diamonds, rangeland, and others. It addresses topics such as distribution, scarcity, substitution, access and use-rights, resource cartels, regulation, and sustainability. It also looks at how these issues are changing under globalization and the rise of transnational corporations.
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