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The study of how humans and nature have interacted over time. Examines the ways that the natural landscape has shaped human societies and has been transformed by developing human civilizations. Global, regional, and local histories detail environmental changes due to shifting socio-economic forces. Also presents the development of the American conservation movement and its modern expressions. Cross-listed as HIST 4080.

Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. Advanced topics in geographic analysis, including types of spatial data and their acquisition, field methods, spatial database design, geospatial modeling, automated scripting, spatial analysis, geostatistics, and cartographic design. Students will be expected to complete a course project that applies modern geographic techniques to a local problem. Additional laboratory fee required; see semester course schedule for amount.

Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. Development of spatial database design, workload programming, and enterprise solutions for geographic information systems. The successful student will be able to create and manipulate spatial databases, integrate real world digital geographic data with a variety of computer software programs and applications, and program rudimentary scripts in Python and Visual Basic to automate processes for enterprise solutions.

Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. Survey of remote sensing methods, including aerial photography, satellite imagery, and digital image processing.

Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. A study of atmospheric composition and structure, clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric motion and winds. Also examines organized weather systems, including air masses, fronts, and severe weather. A discussion of global climates includes circulation, wind systems, climate classification, and climate changes.

Prerequisite: GEOG 3100 or permission of instructor. Applications of computer technologies to cartographic design. Students will explore cartographic history, mapping design, and symbology theory to create a variety of reference and thematic maps for both analog and digital applications.

A survey of the human geography of natural hazards, with emphasis on the U.S. Examines the fundamental concepts and issues regarding natural hazard risk and how environmental risk arises from the complex interaction between the physical environment and human society.

A study of wetlands environments including an examination of physical properties, functions and values, and geographic variety and distribution. (Equivalent to ENSC 4130).

Examines, at local, national, and international levels, the organization of political space and its impact on political processes and patterns of control and conflict within society.

This course examines the impact of physical and cultural geographic factors on military and humanitarian relief operations in a variety of physiographic and cultural regions through the world from ancient times to present.

This course examines the spatial patterns and processes of insurgencies on a global scale; their varying use of conventional warfare, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism; rural vs. urban-based strategies; and the combined political and territorial objectives of insurgents.

Prerequisites: GEOG 1101, GEOG 1102, or permission of the instructor.

Prerequisites: GEOG 1101, GEOG 1102, or permission of the instructor.

This course examines the impact of physical and cultural geographic factors on military and humanitarian relief operations in a variety of physiographic and cultural regions throughout the world from ancient times to the present.

A study of human culture from a geographic perspective, examining the distribution of humans and human activities across space and how social groups and actors use and attach meaning to places and spaces.

This course examines the spatial patterns of racial and ethnic identities at the global, regional, and local scales; the legal and social foundations for racial and ethnic identity, and role of spatial processes in social, political, and economic outcomes for different racial and ethnic groups.

A study of the nature of natural resources, their distribution, usage, and renewal. Addresses concepts that define resources and their allocation, the geographic dimensions of natural resources, as well as the effects of their exploitation. Topics may include forests, fisheries, minerals, natural amenities, tourism, water resources, human-environmental interaction, resource evaluation, and institutional influences on resource use and management.

A study of the basic principles of ecology, resource economics, and environmental history as they relate to environmental management and resource conservation issues around the world. Addresses the social impacts of air, water, and soil pollution, human population growth, food production, deforestation, and many other environmental issues.

Prerequisites: GEOG 1101, GEOG 1102, or permission of the instructor. An advanced regional geography course focusing on comparisons of the general and unique characteristics of selected realms and regions. It explores the spatial patterns and processes that contribute to the formation of diverse culture regions around the world.

Theories and principles concerning regional patterns of plant and animal distributions. Cross-listed as BIOL 4080.

Prerequisite: BIOL 1100. A consideration of major environmental questions of today's world and the ecological aspects relating to the conservation of man's renewable and non-renewable resources. This course has a laboratory fee.

Prerequisite: Approval of chairperson of department. Investigation of a topic or period of special interest, with reports to the instructor.

Consideration of topics in which courses are not offered otherwise, but for which there is current need. Subject matter varies.

Prerequisite: Selection for participation in a University-approved Internship. An individually designed off-campus course involving study, research and/or work in a government agency or business organization.

Prerequisites: At least 15 hours of GEOG and approval from the department Chair.

See the International Studies section of the catalog for details.