Registration is permitted only upon approval of the Program Coordinator. Students will design and develop a digital spatial database, perform spatial analyses, create hardcopy maps, and generate reports. Students will be introduced to several GIS software packages. This course focuses on surficial geological processes and the resulting landforms. Specific topics include landscape processes associated with streams, glaciers, wind, coasts, mass wasting, weathering and soil development, and geologic structure.
Labs emphasize landform analysis through interpretation of topographic maps and aerial photos.
Major topics are soils and cultivatable land, grasslands, forests, wildlife and scenic resources, underground and surface water supplies and minerals. Ecological relationships and maintenance of the quality of the environment are stressed. Emphasis to be placed upon the application of the viewpoints of geography to selected problems. Consideration is given to the significance of primary and secondary activity within the state, urbanization, and potential for development. Lecture, films, slides and field trips.