This course uses a geographic and spatial perspective to introduct students to contemporary immigration to the United States, its origins, adaptation patterns, and long-term effects on American society. Current immigration debates, humanitarian migration, immigrants' experiences (local and transnational), and questions of citizenship and civic participation of immigrants are central to the course.
This course provides an overview of extreme weather events, including winter storms, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves and polar vortices. Emphasis is placed on understanding the physical atmospheric processes involved, storm prediction, of impacts of the storms and extreme events.
A comprehensive regional overview, emphasizing cultural adaptation to desert environments. The interrelationships among religions, cultures, and the physical environment will be examined, along with the region's position and influence in the global system.
Explores the elderly person's changing experience of environment. Physiological, psychological and social changes are related to adjustment within urban and rural community environments, special housing for the elderly, and long-term care environments.
Seminar in social geography, including, for example, race and gender, feminist geography, health care, disease and society; the geography of AIDS; the geography of aging and the life course; poverty and social policy; human behavior in space and time; population and migration studies; spatial structure of social networks; transportation of disadvantaged groups. May be repeated to a maximum of nine credits under different subtitles.
Fundamentals of German with development of the four basic skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Continuation of GER 101.
Systematic review of grammar and furthering of reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills based upon cultural and literary materials.
The course is designed for teachers and prospective teachers of modern foreign languages, with emphasis on German. Modern methodology, theory and practice of language pedagogy.
Explorations into one or several major figures of German literature. Reading of primary texts and pertinent scholarship together with an investigation of the authors' literary, social, or political significance during contemporary or later periods. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 credits.
