Geography

Course ID: GEOG 1101. 3 hours.
Course Title: Human Geography: People, Places, and Cultures
Course Description: Global patterns of resources, population, culture, and economic systems. Factors contributing to these patterns and distinctions between the technologically advanced and less advanced regions of the world.


Course ID: GEOG 1103. 3 hours.
Course Title: Cultural Geography of the United States
Course Description: Geographic factors underlying multiculturalism and ethnic relationships in the United States. Spatial development and organization of culture; population growth, migration, and urbanization; and the spatial dimensions of political, economic, and social processes.


Course ID: GEOG 1111. 3 hours.
Course Title: Introduction to Physical Geography
Course Description: Spatial patterns and underlying processes of the physical environment and biosphere, including climate, vegetation, soils, landforms, and water resources.


Course ID: GEOG 1112. 3 hours.
Course Title: Introduction to Weather and Climate
Course Description: Atmospheric composition and structure, clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric motion and winds. Organized weather systems, including air masses, fronts, and severe weather. Discussion of global climates includes circulation, wind systems, climate classification, and climate change.


Course ID: GEOG 1113. 3 hours.
Course Title: Introduction to Landforms
Course Description: Analysis and classification of major types of land surfaces, stressing geographic characteristics. Interpretation of relationships between landforms and other phenomena through maps, air photos, and field observations. World coverage with emphasis on North America.


Course ID: GEOG 1125. 3 hours.
Course Title: Resources, Society, and the Environment
Course Description: Interactions between physical systems and human activities, and their effects on environmental quality and sustainability. Geography of population and resource consumption, food production, water and air quality, energy policy, land/biotic resource management.


Course ID: GEOG 2010H-2010D. 3 hours.
Course Title: Introduction to Human Geography (Honors)
Course Description: Global patterns of resources, population, culture, and economic systems. Factors contributing to these patterns and distinctions between the technologically advanced and less advanced regions of the world.


Course ID: GEOG 2011-2011L. 3 hours. 2 hours lecture and 2 hours lab per week.
Course Title: Introduction to Geographic Information Science
Course Description: Introduction to principles and applications of Geographic Information Science (GIS). Examines spatial data retrieval, accuracy, management, visualization, and analysis. Emphasis on interdisciplinary nature of GIS and relevance to society. Involves computer examples and exercises that emphasize real-world problem solving.


Course ID: AFST(ANTH)(CMLT)(GEOG)(HIST)(SOCI) 2100. 3 hours.
Course Title: Introduction to Africa
Course Description: The history, physical environment (landforms, vegetation, and climate), and sociocultural environment (artistic, political, and social development) of Africa.


Course ID: GEOG 2110H. 3 hours.
Course Title: Introduction to Physical Geography (Honors)
Course Description: Spatial patterns and underlying processes of the physical environment and biosphere, including climate, vegetation, soils, landforms, and water resources.


Course ID: GEOG 2120H. 3 hours.
Course Title: Introduction to Weather and Climate (Honors)
Course Description: Atmospheric composition and structure, clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric motion and winds. Organized weather systems, including air masses, fronts, and severe weather. Discussion of global climates includes circulation, wind systems, climate classification, and climate change.


Course ID: GEOG 2130H-2130D. 3 hours.
Course Title: Cultural Geography of the United States (Honors)
Course Description: Geographic factors underlying multiculturalism and ethnic relationships in the United States. Spatial development and organization of culture; population growth, migration, and urbanization; and the spatial dimensions of political, economic, and social processes.


Course ID: GEOG 2250H-2250D. 3 hours.
Course Title: Resources, Society, and the Environment (Honors)
Course Description: Interactions between physical systems and human activities and their effects on environmental quality and sustainability. Geography of population and resource consumption, food production, water and air quality, energy policy, land/biotic resource management.


Course ID: GEOG 2300. 3 hours.
Course Title: Geographic Data Analysis
Course Description: Methods and techniques required at various stages of geographic data analysis, including the collection, manipulation, description, presentation, analysis, and interpretation of data. Exercises using statistical and GIS software packages on microcomputers integrate data analysis with geographic information systems.


Course ID: GEOG 2510. 3 hours.
Course Title: The World of Maps: Maps, Air Photos, and Satellite Imagery
Course Description: Introduction to use of maps and aerial photographs for analysis of geographic information. Examines the properties of maps and aerial photographs, measurement of map information, interpretation of qualitative and quantitative map information, unusual map types, graphs, aerial photography and imagery, satellite imagery, and digital mapping. Students will be exposed to the hands-on use of maps and information acquisition techniques for both paper and digital maps and photographs.


Course ID: GEOG 2610. 3 hours.
Course Title: Geography of Georgia
Course Description: Physical, cultural, economic, historical, and biological landscapes of Georgia, explored through videos, music, and computerized data sets, such as the Interactive Atlas of Georgia and the Georgia 100 GIS.

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