The student will acquire perspectives, tools, and information to choose rationally among public policy alternatives regarding responses to environmental hazards. GEO 5377 Natural Resource Assessment and Analysis. This course traces the historical development of policies concerning natural resources from the colonial period to the present. Current issues in conservation and environmental management are discussed. The study of the processes by which various cultural features have diffused throughout the world.
Emphasis is on the contemporary cultural landscape, particularly that of the United States.
GEO 5472 Political Geography. Examines how political processes play out over space from the local to the global levels. Topics include electoral geographies, nationalism and war, and contemporary geopolitics. GEO 5481 Military Geography. GEO 5545 Economic Geography.