Dynamic aspects of weather and climate from global to local scales with emphasis on how we gather, analyze, and understand weather information. Major regions of the United States in terms of contemporary physical, cultural, and natural resource patterns. Boundaries, physical setting, environment concerns, patterns of human occupance, regional characteristics. MC-IS category req. Current cultural realities of major emerging geographic regions are examined in light of how they affect geography and how geography affects the cultures.
Regions vary in different sections.
Patterns of occupance and development. Emphasis on the countries of the European Community. Physical resource patterns and their significance to industrial, agricultural land use, general economic, and political development. Regional study of Africa. Patterns of society as related to the natural environment.