Hello GeoTerps!
We wanted to share with you all today four new and exciting summer-only courses! These courses are NOT offered during the Fall/Spring semesters. Email geog-advise@umd.edu to see how they might fit into your degree plan!
GEOG398X: Commercial Space Startups and Entrepreneurship
Dr. Hannah Kerner
Students will be introduced to the commercial "newspace" industry as it relates to startup companies working on products and services related to geospatial technologies. Lectures will include guest speakers from newspace companies and investors. In addition, students will learn about how to develop a startup idea, stages of investment, etc. culminating in their own space-related startup pitch.
GEOG298C: Urban Futures: Planning for a Changing Climate
Dr. Keith Yearwood
How are the cities of the world adapting to or planning to adapt to climate change? This course focuses on urban areas and the environment, specifically how anthropogenic factors have impacted the environment and how the environment has responded. The aim is to discover how associated and concomitant problems owing to the development and use of the planets resources are created and the various approaches to reduce the negative impacts of these problems through a variety of approaches.
GEOG130: Development Geography: Environmental & Social Justice (Scholarship in Practice Gen Ed!)
Prof. Ipsita Kumar
The geography of economic, social, and environmental well-being and inequality. The course will provide an integrated perspective on the causes, interconnections, and consequences across time and space of, among others, globalization, climate change, poverty, employment, migration and urban growth, agricultural productivity, rural development, policies and international trade. Portraits of selected countries and regions will be developed.
GEOG340: Geomorphology
Dr. Keith Yearwood
Survey of landform types and role of processes in their generation. Frequency of occurrence and implications for land utilization. Emphasis on coastal, fluvial, and glacial landforms in different environmental settings. Landform regions of Maryland.
