Course Description: Cultural differences, and ways of understanding cultural difference, in a global context are examined. After an introduction to key moments in the recent history of the discipline (Cultural Geography), students develop a geographical perspective on: (1) the relationship between culture and politics; (2) the relationship between culture and economic development; and (3) the relationship between culture and nature. Students explore these themes through lecture and discussion copiously illustrated with maps, slides, and videos; short writing projects; the analysis of maps and visual representations of cultural difference; and the reading of specialized materials. F, S.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: GEOG 110 will be a face-to-face course with digital lecture components and assignments, including online options for remote learners
Course Description: Cultural differences, and ways of understanding cultural difference, in a global context are examined. After an introduction to key moments in the recent history of the discipline (Cultural Geography), students develop a geographical perspective on: (1) the relationship between culture and politics; (2) the relationship between culture and economic development; and (3) the relationship between culture and nature. Students explore these themes through lecture and discussion copiously illustrated with maps, slides, and videos; short writing projects; the analysis of maps and visual representations of cultural difference; and the reading of specialized materials. F, S.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: GEOG 110 will be a face-to-face course with digital lecture components and assignments, including online options for remote learners
Course Description: Resource utilization and management, focusing on the earth's renewable and non-renewable energy resources. Each type of energy resource is analyzed and future use is postulated.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: GEOG 235 will be a face-to-face course with digital lecture components and assignments, including online options for remote learners
Course Description: Globalization, which demands a thematic emphasis on how local economies relate to produce the global and also how "the local" is entangled in "the global" is the starting point for the course. The building of great cities, the extraction of natural resources, the migration of people in search of economic opportunity, and the creation of vast networks (both physical and virtual) of communication and transportation are all examples of economic phenomena that shape and define landscapes of globalization. This course is an introduction to economic geography and spatial dimensions of economic change. During the semester, students examine how their world has given rise to and been shaped by economic forces. Issues and themes include: (1) the historical geography of capitalism; (2) spatial patterns of economic interaction, including directional flows of goods, labor, consumers, and firms; (3) forces and actors promoting global economic interconnectivity, including transnational corporations, trade routes, trading blocks, international financial institutions, and technologies that mitigate the economic impact of distance and borders; (4) geographies of development and underdevelopment, and shifting geographical patterns of wealth, poverty, and economic growth; and (5) social difference and issues of social justice as related to the global economy. No prerequisites; sophomores, juniors, and seniors only. Fall (Group I) (Diversity)
Course Delivery- Hybrid: GEOG 345 will be a face-to-face course with digital lecture components and assignments, including online options for remote learners
Course Description: Examination and analysis of the interaction of major world culture systems with the natural environment. Environmental alterations are examined historically (e.g., the early hydrologic societies) but with emphasis on contemporary human impacts on natural landscape (e.g., the impact of strip-mining on natural landscapes and on the hydrologic cycle-groundwater system; the greenhouse effect and human-induced climatic change). Long-term environmental impacts on cultural change are explored. F.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: GEOG 347 will be a face-to-face course with digital lecture components and assignments, including online options for remote learners
Course Description: Geography 353 reviews essential elements of cartographic design and visualization in the context of geographic information systems (GIS). The core of this course is the laboratory project: students will locate data on the world wide web (WWW), process the data so it can be mapped in ArcView (GIS and mapping software), and design and produce a series of maps based on the data. Students will learn to construct basic HTML pages, containing the project maps, which will be placed on the WWW at the end of the semester. Lab work is informed by lectures that focus on the concepts, frameworks, and technical issues of cartographic design and visualization. No prerequisites. F.
Course Delivery- Hybrid: This course will meet in person and available via Zoom for synchronous viewing for students not on campus. To the best of my ability, I will integrate in person and virtual students, with Zoom open on all student devices. Course Scurries: Once I know which students are attending in person, and which are attending virtually, I will group you together in a small scurry, mixing in-person and virtual students. In-person students will help the instructor keep the virtual students in their scurry engaged in the course, a scurry advocate so to speak. All sessions are recorded and accessible for asynchronous viewing. The course is project based, and starts with general and conceptual reading and discussion, shifts to learning learning web-mapping software and working on a significant project. The mapping software is browser based, and all the work will be in the cloud. Thus students can successfully participate whether in person or virtual.