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| EAPS 12000 - Introduction To Geography |
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Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to the major themes of modern geography, designed to enhance your spatial thinking skills, geographic literacy, and to help you understand the relevance of geographic concepts and how they relate to our changing world. This course will expand your awareness of global issues and provide you with tools to understand how the world around you changes at local, regional, and global scales. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours Syllabus Available Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Individual Study, Lecture Offered By: College of Science Department: Dept Erth Atmos & Planetry Sci Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Lower Division, GTC-Science, Tech & Society, UC-Science, Tech & Society May be offered at any of the following campuses: Indiana College Network West Lafayette Learning Outcomes: 1. Interpret geographic data and identify and understand spatial relationships linking humans and the environment. 2. Use geographic tools introduced in the course (e.g. Google Earth, MapMaster). 3. Understand how and why people organize themselves and move as a function of economic, social, historical and cultural forces. 4. Understand how weather and climate are linked to natural and human induced climate change, and links between the atmosphere and biosphere through water and nutrient cycles. 5. Understand how processes within and on the Earth are reflected in the landscape and how erosions, transport and deposition re-shape landscapes. 6. Understand the resource concept and be able to make connections between distribution of resources and balancing competing interests. |
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