Geography
GEO 130 EARTH'S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT (3)
20 lessons, final
A course exploring the fundamental characteristics of earth's physical environment. Emphasis is placed on identifying interrelationships between atmospheric processes involving energy, pressure, and moisture, weather and climate, and terrestrial processes of vegetative biomes, soils, and landscape formation and change. Fulfills elementary certification requirements in education, and USP cross-disciplinary requirement.
Tuition: $931
Christopherson, Robert. Elemental Geosystems. Prentice Hall, 2001
Goode's World Atlas (recommended)
GEO 152 REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD (3)
25 lessons, final
A geographical study of the world by regions with a focus on the world's physical and human landscapes. Emphasis on how regions are connected to each other. Also how each region is affected by, and affects, global issues such as economic restructuring, food production, and environmental change, will be examined. Fulfills elementary certification requirement for Education and USP disciplinary social science requriement.
Tuition: $931
Marston, Knox, and Iverman, World Regions in Global Context, 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005.
Espenshade, Edward. ed. Good's World Atlas. 19th ed. (recommended)
GEO 160 LANDS AND PEOPLES OF THE NON-WESTERN WORLD (3)
30 lessons, final
The geographic study of the conceptual and historical definition of regions of the world as "Non-Western." Global patterns of social, cultural, economic, and political difference between the West and Non-West as well as the processes key to the making of the Non-Western world (such as colonialism and imperialism) are discussed. In addition, selected current issues of significance to peoples in the Non-Western world, such as sustainable development, environment, human rights, and gender relations, are considered. Fulfills USP Cross-Cultural requirement.
Tuition: $931
Karen, P.O. The Non-Western World 2004
GEO 172 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (3)
30 lessons, final
A study of the spatial distributions of significant elements of human occupance of the earth's surface, including basic concepts of diffusion, population, migration, settlement forms, land utilization, impact of technology on human occupance of the earth. (Fulfills elementary certification requirement for Education and General Studies requirement.)
Tuition: $931
Knox, Paul L., and Marston, Sallie A. Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context, 4th ed. (2007). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (recommended)
Goode's World Atlas (recommended)
GEO 251 WEATHER AND CLIMATE (3)
25 lessons, final
A survey of the atmospheric controls associated with local, regional, and global weather and climate variability. Includes fundamental coverage of the physics and chemistry of energy, gasses, pressure and moisture, with a goal of promoting understanding of general weather analysis and forecasting, severe storms, atmospheric pollution, descriptive climatology, and global climate change.
Prereq: GEO 130 or consent of instructor.
Tuition: $931
Lutgens, Frederick and Edward Tarbuck. The Atmosphere, An Introduction to Meterology. 7th ed. Prentice Hall, 1998
GEO 322 GEOGRAPHY OF KENTUCKY (3)
25 lessons, final
An examination of the cultural, economic, political, and environmental diversity of Kentucky. In addition to studying the state's historical evolution, emphasis will be placed on contemporary problems facing the state. Kentucky's regional, national, and international contexts are discussed.
Prereg: GEO 130, 152, 160, or 172.
Tuition: $931
Texts are available in the ISP Office.