This course introduces the concepts, techniques, and histories behind mapping as a creative and artistic practice. It covers the centrality of the map in everyday life and the changing role of maps as society becomes increasingly saturated by digital information technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS). The course introduces principles in cartographic design and geovisualization culminating in a series of maps created by each student.

This course introduces the concepts, techniques, and histories behind mapping as a creative and artistic practice. It covers the centrality of the map in everyday life and the changing role of maps as society becomes increasingly saturated by digital information technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS). The course introduces principles in cartographic design and geovisualization culminating in a series of maps created by each student.

A course exploring the fundamental characteristics of earth's physical environment. Emphasis is placed on identifying interrelationships between atmospheric processes involving energy, pressure, and moisture, weather and climate, and terrestrial processes of vegetative biomes, soils, and landscape formation and change. Fulfills elementary certification requirements in education, and USP cross-disciplinary requirement.

This course provides a broad overview of the processes that have shaped the climate in which we live, and of consequences of changes to this climate. The principal functions of climate in relation to the hydrosphere and biosphere are introduced, and climate change over geological time is described. The basic data used by climate science to identify and explain historical climate change, paleoclimate change, and more recent climate trends are examined.

This course provides a broad overview of the processes that have shaped the climate in which we live, and of consequences of changes to this climate. The principal functions of climate in relation to the hydrosphere and biosphere are introduced, and climate change over geological time is described. The basic data used by climate science to identify and explain historical climate change, paleoclimate change, and more recent climate trends are examined.

This course provides a broad overview of the processes that have shaped the climate in which we live, and of consequences of changes to this climate. The principal functions of climate in relation to the hydrosphere and biosphere are introduced, and climate change over geological time is described. The basic data used by climate science to identify and explain historical climate change, paleoclimate change, and more recent climate trends are examined.

This course focuses on basic spatial patterns of wealth and poverty and the global scale, comparing places and regions. Contemporary trends are identified and viewed in their historical context. Inequalities in access to basic human needs - food and water - are investigated through case studies drawn from around the world. The highly unequal world we live in raises serious questions of justice and sustainability, and these are considered in this course. Fulfills General Education requirements for Global Citizenship.

This course focuses on basic spatial patterns of wealth and poverty and the global scale, comparing places and regions. Contemporary trends are identified and viewed in their historical context. Inequalities in access to basic human needs - food and water - are investigated through case studies drawn from around the world. The highly unequal world we live in raises serious questions of justice and sustainability, and these are considered in this course. Fulfills General Education requirements for Global Citizenship.

This course addresses environmental questions of global importance, including population growth, resource consumption, environmental degradation, biodiversity conservation, toxic contamination and environmental justice.

This course addresses environmental questions of global importance, including population growth, resource consumption, environmental degradation, biodiversity conservation, toxic contamination and environmental justice.