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Undergraduate Bulletin College of Arts and Sciences

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Below you will find the list of courses offered through the College's schools, departments, and programs. This list includes important information about each course, including the course description, credit hours, prerequisites, repeatability, and more. Use the filters to narrow your search.

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99 courses found. Showing results 1–10.
  • GEOG-G 107 Physical Systems of the Environment (3 cr.) Explores the physical processes of the Earth—its weather, climate, landforms, oceans and ecosystems—and analyzes a range of environmental issues.
  • GEOG-G 109 Weather and Climate (3 cr.) What causes tornadoes, hurricanes, and other extreme weather? What is climate change and why is it occurring? Learn about weather, climate, and how they interact. Credit given for only one of EAS-E 122, GEOG-G 109, or GEOL-G 122.
  • GEOG-G 110 Human Geography in a Changing World (3 cr.) How do languages, religions, customs, and politics change from local to global scales? Learn how humans shape geographic patterns of migration, agriculture, industry, and urbanization.
  • GEOG-G 117 Mapping Solutions: How Geography Solves the World's Most Pressing Problems (3 cr.) Geography is the major discipline that bridges sciences and humanities. This course investigates and proposes solutions to pressing issues (e.g., climate change, urbanization, water crises, etc.), using critical thinking and Geographic Information System (GIS), an advanced digital technology that aids in the exploration of geographic patterns through mapping and analysis.
  • GEOG-G 120 Regions of the World (3 cr.) What do bananas, the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and drone warfare have in common? How do economic development, geopolitics, and resource extraction shape current events? Answers to these and other questions are used to explain the roots of contemporary global events.
  • GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It? (3 cr.) How has the global environment changed? How are we influencing Earth's natural processes, now and in the future? Learn about climate change, resource consumption, and land use change.
  • GEOG-G 208 Environment and Society (3 cr.) Just as we shape the environment, the environment shapes us. From globalization to food production to climate change, learn how humans and environments interact.
  • GEOG-G 218 Edible Education (3 cr.) Explores many different aspects of the food movement in a single course. Topics include organic agriculture, school lunch reform, farm-to-school programs, urban agriculture and food sovereignty using a multi-disciplinary perspective.
  • GEOG-G 220 Social and Historical Studies Topics in Geography (3 cr.) Exploration of an intriguing topic from a geographic perspective. Topics vary. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
  • GEOG-G 221 Natural and Mathematical Sciences Topics in Geography (3 cr.) Exploration of an intriguing topic from a geographic perspective. Topics vary. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.