This course is for students from Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences and explores at an introductory level the complexities and processes of the physical environment, building and complementing material covered in ES101.
Emphasis is on minerals, rocks, landforms, climate, water and soils.
This course has been designed for students with a science background and explores at an introductory level, the environmental processes through a systematic presentation of the major inter-related components. Themes covered in this course include the lithosphere, landforms, the atmosphere, pedosphere and biosphere. This course is for combined majors and prospective single majors in the Faculties of Humaties and Social Sciences and is designed to prepare students for advanced courses in human geography offered in Part II of the ES programme. The course is designed for students from Faculty of Science and is intended to expose them to a selection of themes relating to the human-physical environment interface. Themes include the role of culture in the development of science and vice versa, human beginnings, cultural heaths and change, environment and human health, natural hazards and their mitigation, population and development and introduction to political geography.