An examination of the cultural, economic, political, and environmental diversity of Kentucky. In addition to studying the state's historical evolution, emphasis will be placed on contemporary problems facing the state. Kentucky's regional, national, and international contexts are discussed.
This course focuses on environmental processed ( in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere & biosphere) and the effects of historic and long-term environmental changes. Climatic change and natural system adjustments will be discusses, but the course will concentrate on human- induced environmental changes.
advanced students work under the direct supervision of the faculty or staff cartographer and in conjunc- tion with other faculty members on departmental and contracted projects. May be repeated to a maximum of six hours.
This course explores the field of landscape ecology - the causes, development, importance of ecological processes, and the interactions of dynamic processes over broad spatial scales that can serve as foundation for decision-making and problem sloving.
Principles of landscape ecology and their applications to contemporary ecological issues. Students will learn and apply the tool of geographic information system (GIS) and spatial analysis to problems in natural resource ecology, management, and conservation. Course covers the following topics: principals of landscape ecology (e.g., patch, mosaic, and scale), quantification of landscape patterns, formation and dynamics of landscape patterns, role of disturbance, landscape models and their applications.
An introduction to the application of analytical methods to geographic problem solving. Topics cover sampling theory, probability theory and both para- metric and nonparametric statistical techniques.
Study of selected topics on agriculture resource allocation, resource conflict, public land policy, natural hazards, environmental management, energy and biogeography. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.
An introductory course exploring the many ways in which art, architecture, literature and film have come to define and represent major urban centers in the German-speaking world. Focus in a given semester will be on an individual city such as Berlin, Vienna or Munich in times of innovation and upheaval during which it has contributed significantly to developments in literature and the visual arts and was or continues to be at the center of world historical events. May be repeated once with new subtitle.
This course concentrates on the development of reading and writing skills. Students learn to build vocabulary systematically and develop strategies for reading texts of varying kinds and levels of difficulty. Writing assignments ranging from brief descriptions and reports to translations and original compositions enable students to develop and sharpen writing skills. Prerequisite for upper division courses.
The course will confront students with a variety of texts with ever increasing difficulty. Students will be provided with the foundation necessary both for understanding the evalution of German literature, history, and culture, and with the reading skills necessary for them to use the language in their coursework. Completion of the two-semester sequence will enable undergraduates to pursue a course of study leading to the proposed certificate in German Studies.
