Geography Courses Winter 2015
GEOG110:
The World Today: Global Perspectives
Credits: 3
This
class uses the context of regions of
the world to explore the 21st century issues of climate change, development, politics, economy, and demography. Each
region will be used to highlight aspects of
sustainability.
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GEOG130: Developing Countries
Credits:
3
An introduction to the geographic
characteristics of the development problems and
prospects of developing countries. Spatial distribution of
poverty, employment, migration and urban growth,
agricultural productivity, rural
development, policies
and international trade.
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GEOG140: Natural Disasters:
Earthquakes, Floods, and Fires
Credits:
3
Students will examine how Catastrophic Environmental
Events (CCE) shape human society and ecosystem from the interdisciplinary perspective afforded by
the field of
Geography.
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GEOG202: Introduction to Human
Geography (ONLINE)
Credits: 3
Introduction to what geographers
do and how they do it.
Systematic stud
of issues
regarding social and cultural systems
from a global
to
a local scale.
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GEOG211: Geography of Environmental Systems Laboratory
Credits:
3
A
laboratory course to accompany GEOG 201. Analysis of
the components
of the
earth's energy balance using basic instrumentation; weather map interpretation;
soil analysis; the application of map and air photo interpretation techniques to
landform analysis.
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GEOG306: Introduction to Quantitative Methods for the Geographic
Environmental Sciences
(ONLINE)
Credits: 3
Topics
include data display, data description and
summary, statistical inference and
significance tests,
analysis of variance, correlation, regression, and some advanced
concepts, such as matrix
methods, principal component analysis, and spatial
statistics.
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