Academic Catalog 2023-2024

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Geography (GEOG)

GEOG 1200 — World Regional Geography   3 credit hours

In this course, you will study the following central elements of world geography: area and population; physical geography and human adaptations; cultural and historical geographies; economic geography; and geopolitical issues.

Schedule type: Independent Study, Lecture, Web

GEOG 1201 — World Regional Geography I   3 credit hours

This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts in regional geography, as well as to provide an understanding of the different geographic regions of our contemporary world. In this course, North America, Middle America, Latin America, Europe, the realm of former Soviet Union and central Asia (Eurasia), and the Pacific realm will be discussed from an economic, resource, political, cultural, and physical perspective.

Schedule type: Independent Study, Lecture, Web

GEOG 1202 — World Regional Geography II   3 credit hours

This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts in regional geography, as well as to provide an understanding of the different geographic regions of our contemporary world. In this course, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and the realm of Southeast Asia, will be discussed from an economic, resource, political, cultural, and physical perspective.

Schedule type: Independent Study, Lecture, Web

GEOG 2100 — Elements of Physical Geography   3 credit hours

An examination of the fundamentals of physical landscape and processes that create and modify the physical landscape. Includes weather and climate processes, global climate patterns, earth's physical systems and processes that drive the physical systems on earth, soil and vegetation types, and biodiversity.

Schedule type: Independent Study, Lecture, Web