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 explores the theories, issues, and debates around globalization. Students will examine how global integration shapes social justice, political participation, and material well-being both within and between nation-states. Topics include: colonial legacies, uneven development, global institutions, gender roles, cultural and racial diversity, environmental degradation, and transnational social movements.

An introduction to geographic perspectives on human political, economic, social, and cultural activities (such as trade, economic development, empire, colonialism and nation building, agriculture, pollution, urbanization, population dynamics).

An introduction to environmental systems such as weather and climate, vegetation, land forms and soils, and how the quality of these systems is modified by human use. Resource issues discussed include: atmospheric pollution and global warming; groundwater, flooding, and flood plain management; volcanic activity and earthquakes; and biospheric processes associated with deforestation and lake eutrophication. Case studies based upon important environmental problems illustrate how human activity and environmental systems interrelate. Fulfills USP Cross- Disciplinary requirement.

This course reviews the globalization of the world economy as a historical process with specific local, regional, and national outcomes. It introduces students to the factors and dynamics of ongoing globalization of the economy. Fulfills the UK Core requirement for Global Citizenship.

Fundamental training in map drafting, compila- tion, symbolization, scales, projections, and map reproduction, including emphasis on the conceptual planning and designing of maps and graphs as a medium for communication.

This course introduces students to the use of geographic information systems and their basic principles. Topics addressed include data collection, processing and output. Students will learn about types of geographic information and data: sources, constraints, and uses; the range of secondary spatial data sets available; and the collection of primary spatial data using global positioning systems (GPS) and other technologies.

This course instructs students on the full workflow associated with primary data -- research design, data definition, collection and cleaning, mapping, statistical analysis - that can also be applied to secondary data. Use cases will focus on a range of human and physical geography topics emerging from everyday life and emphasize spatial data and the analytical techniques associated with common software packages, e.g., spreadsheets and open-source mapping tools.

This course focuses on the cultural geographies of the subcontinent, rural landscapes and cultures and environmental problems, the historical geography of precolonial and colonial Africa, and the social geography of contemporary economic development.

A study of earth surface processes and land forms. The focus is on the analysis and interpretation of earth surface features and topography in terms of process-response mechanisms, and on an understanding of the fundamental physical, chemical, biological, and human processes which create and modify landscapes. The course emphasizes the dynamic nature of land forms and Landscapes, and the interrelationships between land forms and hydrology, climate, soils, and the biosphere.