This course provides students with an overview of the environmental and social concerns encompassed by the discipline of geography. It surveys essential concepts in both cultural, human, and physical geography, and students acquire basic skills in the use and interpretation of maps. College-level reading skills are recommended for success in this course. NOTE: Beneficial for all undergraduates, this course is particularly valuable for teachers and for those planning to teach geography or the social sciences.
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The course provides spatial and ecological perspectives on the human occupancy of the earth. It examines distinctive cultural landscapes as the product of different ways of life, including particular mixes of language, religion, population dynamics, food production, economic and political organization, settlement systems, natural resource exploitation, and culture history. College-level reading skills are recommended for success in this course.
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This lecture and lab course introduces the ways in which the complex interplay of solar radiation, temperature, moisture, atmospheric pressure, and wind produces the short-term atmospheric conditions called weather and the long-term atmospheric conditions called climate. It gives particular attention to the ways in which weather and climate influence human life and to evidence of climate changes, past and present. College-level reading skills are recommended for success in this course.
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This lecture and lab course examines the physical processes that shape and reshape the face of the earth. The course introduces geomorphic forces that work from within the earth to create landforms and to processes that operate at the earth's surface to wear landforms away. It gives considerable attention to the fact that many of the processes that create or destroy landforms also constitute natural hazards with which human societies must contend. College-level reading skills are recommended for success in this course.
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This lecture and lab course is the study of the earth and the processes that shape it. Students learn about the materials and physical features of the earth, changes in those features, and the processes that bring them about. It studies the earth as a planet, as a changing body, and as humans' home. College-level reading skills are recommended for success in this course.
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The course expands students' knowledge of the world beyond the borders of Nebraska. The course divides the earth into a manageable number of geographical areas (regions) and analyzes them in terms of their human and physical geographies. It gives particular attention to distinctions between the wealthy, technologically advanced regions of the earth and those areas that remain less developed. Students explore processes of globalization that increasingly link regions to one another. College-level reading skills are recommended for success in this course.
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This course permits instruction in special content areas that are not included in other Geography courses.