Courses

Geog 4 Land, Water, & Life

Enrollment Comments: Previously numbered GEOG 3B. Not open for credit to students who have completed Geography 3B.

Study of the interactions among water, landforms, soil, and vegetation that create and modify the surface of the Earth. Impacts of physical environment on human societies and humans as agents of environmental change.

Geog 134 Earth System Science 

Prerequisite: Geography 3 or 3A or 3B or 4 or equivalent course.
Recommended Preparation: Two prior upper-division courses in physical geography.

Description of various components of earth system: climate and hydrologic systems, biogeochemical dynamics, ecological dynamics, human interactions, and global change. Observations and modeling of earth system.

Geog 142 Biogeochemical Cycles

Prerequisite: Geography 3 or 3A or 3B or 4; or, Environmental Studies 2; or, Earth Science 1; or, Chemistry 1A.
Recommended Preparation: Introductory natural or physical science course in Earth system science.

Enrollment Comments: Open to non-majors. 

Examines processes driving element and energy cycling through the Earth system. Aim is to understand global patterns of element fluxes, dynamic nature of element/energy cycles, and prediction of biogeochemical cycling with changes in climate and human impacts.

Geog 197 Careers in Geography

Recommended Preparation: Completion of required lower-division Geography courses.

Enrollment Comments: Designed for majors. 

Provides a foundation for the career planning process and post-college life. Opportunities for Geographers, with their tradition of interdisciplinary and integrative thinking and skills, are numerous and expanding. Through lecture, discussion, interactive workshops, speaker panels and more, students will develop a career portfolio.

Geog 500 Teaching Assistant Training

Course for new teaching assistants to examine geographic teaching methods and classroom procedures. Emphasis on use of equipment and facilities in the department, teaching aids, lectures, exams, grading, student advising, and special problems. Repeatable.