Emphasis will be given to analysis of the processes and environmental interactions that shape these systems. Students may fulfill the General Graduation Requirement in natural sciences by taking this course and one other four-unit laboratory course in any other discipline of the natural sciences. Cultural Geography 3 units Fall. An introduction to the basic cultural elements of geography. Culture can be defined as the total of the knowledge, attitudes, and habitual behavior patterns shared and transmitted by the members of a society.
Cultural geography examines how place shapes culture and how cultures shape place.
The major themes of cultural geography to be addressed include culture hearths, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural landscapes, and culture regions. This course fulfills the General Graduation Requirement in cultural diversity but does not count toward the natural sciences. Physical Geology 4 units Fall, spring. Physical geology is the study of the materials the earth is made of and the processes that occur both on and beneath the surface. The course heightens awareness of how the earth continually changes, the rates of geologic change, and the finite character of the earth's resources.