| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Geography (X) |
An examination of the interdependency, connectivity and diversity that characterizes world regions. The course explores the interactions of processes of global change with the environmental and social identities of individual landscapes, cities and peoples.
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Introduction to the oceans and atmosphere and their role in the Earth's climate and its weather patterns. Focus on the flows of solar energy through the ocean and atmosphere systems. Human impacts of the Earth's climate are also introduced.
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Study of the interactions among water, landforms, soil, and vegetation that create and modify the surface of the Earth. Impacts of physical environment on human societies and humans as agents of environmental change.
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Survey of spatial differentiation and organization of human activity and human interaction with the Earth's biophysical systems. Sample topics include human spatial decision-making behavior, migration, population growth, economic development, industrial location, urbanization, and human impacts on the natural environment.
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Oil and water are two key strategic resources dominating the international scene. This class provides an overview of global distributions of oil and water resources and analyzes some of the social, economic, and geopolitical ramifications of these distributions.
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Overview of global warming and climate change processes. Description of complex relationships between scientific, technological, economic, social, political, and historical facets of global warming and climate change. Introduction to the concept and practice of climate modeling.
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Surveys properties of maps, emphasizing map use and interpretation. Lecture topics include map abstraction, generalization, map projections, and symbolization. Special purpose maps, thematic maps, and the display of quantitative and qualitative information is considered.
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Introduction to geography computing environment. Basic UNIX commands, file stuctures, and filters. X-windows, World Wide Web and basic software tools.
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Introductory course on production of web-based and printed materials using geographic data such as photos, images, maps, and graphs. Using a geographic theme which may vary by quarter (e.g., "rivers"), students learn image processing techniques using Photoshop, create web pages using Dreamweaver, and make presentations using PowerPoint.
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Social and physical science concepts manifested in the sport of surfing. Topics include wave generation and forecasting, economics of the surf industry, spatial search, strategic behavior under crowding, territorialism, and the generation/diffusion of regional surf cultures.
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Field study methods from physical, human, and regional geography applied to surfing. Physical methods focus on coastal engineering: hydrographic surveys, wave measurement, etc. Human methods include spatial population distribution, attitude surveys, etc. Project or term paper, and presentation required.
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Mock summit in which students act as representatives of different countries participating in environmental treaty negotiations. This three-week course immerses students in the topic of global change and its associated policies thereby mimicking the pressures and intensity that exist at a real environmental summit.
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Geographic curriculum content that lies outside regularly scheduled courses. New classes under development or taught temporarily. Course number-letter combination reflects instructor. Content varies.
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Provides introductory directed inquiry into a topic of interest to the student.
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Independent geographical research conducted under the guidance of Geography faculty. Topic and scope varies, specified by student and supervisory faculty member prior to registration.
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Introduction to transportation related problems, involving energy, the environment, congestion, infrastructure, and future trends. Begin with a historical perspective of transportation innovations and their impacts on urban form, and then review current problems from the movement of freight, to the development of transit-oriented neighborhoods.
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Basic physical principles of electromagnetic radiation in the environment and their application to physical geography and remote sensing. Radiative transfer in the atmosphere, oceans, snow and ice, inland waters, rock, soil, and vegetation. Spectral signatures in remote sensing.
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Introduction to the processes which control the circulation of the world's oceans. Topics include: wind driven circulation, thermohaline circulation, water masses, waves, and tides.
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Introduction to the study of the economic geography of cities and regions and its relation to planning: urbanization, internal stucture of cities, settlement systems, regional growth and development, migration, transportation, housing.
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Introduction to the study of spatial economic theories with applications at the urban, regional, and global scales. Topics include settlement system dynamics and regional development, land economics and land use policies, and regional inequality and poverty.
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An introduction to the dynamics of the earth's atmosphere. Topics include: energy exchange mechanisms, energy balance, condensation and precipitation processes, the dynamics of pressure and wind systems, and the distributions of weather disturbances.
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Issues, problems, solutions, and technologies. Policies, plans, programs, and the environment. Transportation system simulation, trip generation, distribution, modal split, and traffic assignment. Data collection, data analysis, and applications in planning, design, and operations. Lab: design a travel survey and pilot test it.
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Issues, problems, technologies, policies, plans, programs, and the transportation-environment relationship. Transportation systems simulation, trip-based and activity data collection and modeling. Applications in planning, design and operations. Lab: Critically examine transportation plans and programs; explore and analyze travel surveys.
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Multilevel data in time use, activity, and travel surveys. Revealed and stated choice data collection in laboratory/field studies. Regression models. Systems simulation. Applications in policy analysis and traffic operations. Lab: Data analysis to develop models for typical regional simulations.
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Analysis of the water cycle with emphasis on land-atmosphere interactions; precipitation-runoff, flood, snowmelt, and infiltration processes.
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