GEOG 430      Energy Resources
This course covers the distribution, origin, and utilization of all types of energy. Topics include exploration, production, storage, transportation and conservation of carbon-based fuels, hydrologic, nuclear energy, and alternate energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, and hydrogen. Prerequisite: ENV-SCI 110R or GEOLOGY 220. Offered: Fall.
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 435      Geoarchaeology
This course examines geomorphological and archaeological methods used in reconstructing sites, settlement patterns, and paleoenvironments. Explores dating methods, soils, and stratigraphy as tools for studying landscape evolution and human occupation. Prerequisites: GEOG 314 or GEOLOGY 314, or permission of instructor. Offered: On demand
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 437      Population Geography
This course analyzes human populations: how they grow, how their compositions change, and how and why people migrate from one place to another. Students will study basic demographic processes- mortality, fertility, and migration- and underline theory and techniques. Students will also examine relationships between population growth and population planning, immigration, urbanization and cities, and the environment. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 442      Quaternary Environments
This course reviews earth climatic history and focuses on major mechanisms for global and regional climate change. Methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction are examined, including analysis of proxy data and climate modeling. Application of these methods toward prediction of future climate change is also explored. Also offered as Geog 5542. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 314 or GEOLOGY 314, and GEOG 215, or permission of instructor. Offered: On demand.
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 444      Spatial Data Analysis
Quantitative techniques and applications of spatial data analysis. The course will cover basic geospatial analysis techniques including hypothesis testing, kriging, variagram analysis, multivariate analysis and reliability analysis. Emphasis is on practical applications rather than theories. Intended for Geology, Geography, Environmental Studies, and relevant fields. Three hours lecture and computer lab per week.Prerequisites: Elementary statistics or permission of instructorOffered: On demand
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 448      Satellite Climatology
Use of satellite observations to study the climate system. Discussions consider the development of satellite climatology, sensors, platforms and methodologies used to estimate climate variables from radiance measurements. Aspects of climate that are emphasized include could climatologies, cloud systems, atmospheric moisture, radiation budget, and land-surface conditions. Three hours lecture and one hour lab per week. Prerequisites: Geog 215 or Geog 219, or permission if instructor. Offered: Every other Spring.
Credits: 4 hours
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GEOG 449      Global Water and Sustainability
This course examines the physical characteristics of water and its role in Earth systems. The challenges facing societies in as era of rapidly changing climate are explored. Cross-listed with Environmental Science 446.
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 450      Gis Fundamentals For Research Applications
This course will address the needs of upper level undergraduate and graduate students who desire to learn and apply fundamental Geographic Information Systems concepts and techniques for their research projects. This course will draw on the content of the Introductory GIS course offered by the department but will also be flexible such that the individual needs or interest of students can be met through guided reading and/or tailored laboratory sessions. The Department of Geosciences GIS computer laboratory, with a variety of GIS and Remote Sensing software, will be available for this course. Prerequisite: Permission by instructor Offered: Winter Restrictions: Only for upper level undergraduate and graduate students
Credits: 4 hours
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GEOG 457      North American Prehistory
This class offers instruction in the archaeological survey of prehistoric North America from the Arctic to northern Mexico. The course outlines cultural developments within this region form the peopling of the Americas near the end of the last Ice Age to the arrival of Europeans over 10,000 years later. The diversification of Native American societies across this time span is examined in relation to social and environmental challenges, including the transformation of hunter-gatherer groups into chiefdoms and complex agricultural societies. Cross-listed with Anthropology 384.
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 460      Transportation Geography
Relation between transportation and spatial organization, selected analytical models dealing with traffic demand, network configuration, and allocation of transport facilities; application to specific problem areas including commuting. Seminar with discussions of briefs and term paper. Offered: On demand
Credits: 3 hours
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GEOG 489      Tutoring In Geography
Geography majors in their senior year may enroll for 1-3 hours tutoring for credit. This will entail working as a tutor, under the direction of the faculty, to students in the 100 to 200-level courses in the department who either have inadequate background preparation in environment studies and geography or are identified by the instructor as needing tutorial help. Tutoring will be on a credit/non-credit basis. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor Offered: On demand
Credits: 1-3 hours
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GEOG 496      Geography Internship
Students obtain directed practical experience working with non-profits, governments, or private enterprises. Duties will vary based on contractual agreement between the student, host organization, and the professor. Students should have junior standing or higher, and the instructor's permission. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor Offered: Summer, Fall, or Winter as available
Credits: 1,6 hours
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GEOG 499      Geography Seminar
Students critique geographic research and prepare a paper and an oral presentation on an approved topic. Prerequisite: Senior standing and successful completion of the WEPT Offered: Winter
Credits: hours
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GEOG H202      World Geography II
A study of Russia and the other former Soviet Republics, the Middle East, the Orient, Africa, and the Pacific World organized around the basic geographic concepts of human-environmental relationships and spatial interaction. Offered: Winter
Credits: hours
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