Summer 2008 Courses
Elements of Physical Geography (GEOG A205)
Analysis of the processes that form the physical environment & resulting physical patterns. Study of landforms, climate, soils, water resources, vegetation, & their world & regional patterns.
Dr. Mark Carper MTWR 9:15-11:15 a.m. BMH 202
Fall 2008 Courses
Introduction to Geography (GOEG/INTL 101)
Introduction to cultural, political, and environmental diversity in an international context. Focus on key global issues, current events, and geographic approaches to understanding world problems.
| Dr. Dorn Van Dommelen | TR 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. |
| | TR 2:30-3:45 p.m. |
| Dr. Mark Carper | MW 1:00-2:15 p.m. p.m |
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Elements of Physical Geography (GEOG A205)
Analysis of the processes that form the physical environment & resulting physical patterns. Study of landforms, climate, soils, water resources, vegetation, & their world & regional patterns.
| Dr. Mark Carper | MW 10:00-11:15 a.m. |
| Dr. Brian Brettschneider | TR 1:00-2:30 p.m. |
Elements of Physical Geography Lab (GEOG A205L)
| Bobby Selah | T 2:30-5:15 p.m. |
| | R 2:30-5:15 p.m. |
| Dr. Dorn Van Dommelen | F 9:00-11:45 a.m. |
Living on Earth: Introduction to Environmental Studies (ENVI A201)
Introduction to complex environmental issues, emphasizing human impacts, behavior, and institutions. Covers population, food energy, air, and water resources, climate change, chemicals, forests and biodiversity, indigenous cultures, land use, current law, and human-nature relationships. Focuses on policy and politics, historical and cross-cultural perspectives, individual incentives, economic tradeoffs, and questions of fairness.
| Alecia Brettschneider | Web Course TBA |
Environmental Ethics (ENVI A303)
Historical & comparative analysis of Western, non-Western, indigenous & Native American philosophies, concerning the intrinsic, aesthetic and use values of nature & the land. Contemporary environmental ethics, including deep ecology, the land ethic, ecofeminism, & animal rights theories will be examined in detail. There will also be a focus on the ethical issues surrounding contemporary environmental controversies, such as land management, wildlife management, wilderness designation, sustainability, biodiversity & species preservation, private property & public commons, environmental racism, human overpopulation, development versus preservation. laboratory use of animals, vivisection, animal farming, subsistence, & sports hunting.
| Dr. Raymond Anthony | TR 2:30-3:45 p.m. |
