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. The application of GIS technology to mapping, modeling and management of large data bases will be emphasized. 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.
A study is made of the natural resources basic to human welfare that are subject to depletion or exhaustion. Major topics are soils and cultivable 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. Designed to integrate the various themes of geography and related subjects. Emphasis to be placed upon the application of the viewpoints of geography to selected problems.