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  • GEOG 1300: World Regional Geogr

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Geography is by nature spatial and interdisciplinary. A general knowledge of the realms and regions of the world is fundamental to understanding the deeper relations of human-human and human-environment interactions. The course seeks to provide a broad overview of global neighborhoods, by examining physical, cultural, social, political, and economic characteristics. Within each realm, the course considers many themes ranging from development and food production to languages, religion, political systems, and current events.
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  • GEOG 1400: Human Geography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    The world is becoming more volatile and uncertain. Critical questions facing the world in the 21st century include food security, rapid population change, human disease, energy use/environmental pollution, continuing disparities between rich and poor regions, sustainable transportation/urban development, and geopolitical fragmentation. Human geography, as the study of the interrelationships between people, the places they inhabit and the spaces that comprise the global environments, provides a powerful lens for examining these critical issues. This course examines the relationships between humans and the Earth, including topics in environment and humanity, agriculture in a growing world, population dynamics, the geography of culture, cities and urbanization, patterns of economic development and geopolitical conflict.
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  • GEOG 1750: Geography of Skiing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Snow skiing (or snowboarding) can variously be described as a sport, a lifestyle, a career, or a passion. From its roots as a method for traversing the winter terrain of Scandinavia, human-powered snow sports have grown into a $67 billion industry involving 24 million participants in this country alone. But at its core, skiing is about the unique interaction between mountainous landscapes, regional climate patterns, and technological innovation. This course studies the activity of skiing through the lens of geographic inquiry, as geography provides the tools to investigate all the critical aspects of the sport. The goal of this course is to introduce students to the science of geography, by investigating the physical processes and cultural dynamics of the wide variety of ski disciplines in use today.
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  • GEOG 2400: Climate Chng Lost City

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Climate change has been occurring throughout Earth's history. Inherent processes such as the planet's tectonic activity, the Earth's relationship to the Sun and other extraterrestrial bodies, as well as atmospheric and hydrological processes have dictated an ever-changing climate pattern over a variety of time scales. However, the relatively recent evolution and expansion of humans around the globe has cast climate change in a new light. Humans are altering the atmosphere in an unprecedented manner, and stand to suffer greatly from even relatively minor alterations in climate. This course will examine several historical and recent examples of how human modification of an environment and/or climate led to the collapse of cities to civilizations. In addition to the cultural examples, students will be introduced to the methods and review the evidence used to study climate changes of the past, and will examine the data being used to forecast climate change into the future.
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  • GEOG 3000: Geo-Excursions

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Get outside and see how field science is done!. In this course, you'll see some of Utah's excellent scenery and you'll experience firsthand how geoscientists collect data on site. Learn by doing! This class is centered around weekly lectures and four Friday all-day field trips. Topics of the class will vary by semester. Current topics include: snow processes and hydrology of the Wasatch Mountains, and Utah's scenic landforms such as the Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Mountains. This class is repeatable two times for credit if taken from different instructors.
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  • GEOG 3020: Geographical Analysis

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Emphasizes the spatial point of view and presents techniques of spatial analysis applicable to all fields of geography. Course covers various spatial and non-spatial descriptive statistics, several discrete and continuous probability distributions, and a small suite of spatial and non-spatial inferential statistics common to geographic research. Special attention is given addressing problems in the use of these techniques with spatial data. Prerequisites: 'C-' or better in (MATH 1035/ 1040/ 1050/ 1060/ 1080/ 1090/ 1210/ 1220/ 1250/ 1260/ 1310/ 1311/ 1320/ 1321) OR AP CalcAB score 3+ OR AP CalcBC score 3+ OR AP Stats score 3+ OR ACT Math score 26+ OR SAT Math score 640+ OR IB Math score 5+
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  • GEOG 3050: Prob Solv in Phys Geog

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Many problems within physical geography require a quantitative answer, but the problems rarely take the streamlined form most math courses and textbooks present, and their solution often requires information from several disciplines. Thus, the typical series of required math and science courses does not always prepare physical geography students for real-world problem solving. this course is designed to fill this need by focusing on the application of mathematical principles and models to solve problems commonly encountered in physical geography. Throughout the course, the students will be introduced to a broad survey of mathematical methods relevant for problems within physical geography. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in MATH 1050 OR 1060 OR 1080 OR 1090 OR 1210 OR 1220 OR 1250 OR 1260 OR 1310 OR 1311 OR 1320 OR 1321 OR AP CalcAB/CalcBC score 3+ OR ACT Math score 26+ OR SAT Math score 640+ OR IB Math score 5+
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  • GEOG 3090: Health-Global Pandemics

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Graduate students should enroll in GEOG 5090 and will be held to higher standards and/or more work. The increasing population mobility and the worsening environment have led to many global health problems such as the recent outbreak of COVID-19. Understanding and preventing these public health problems require efforts from various disciplines, including Geography. Health geography incorporates concepts and methodologies from the discipline of geography to study population health, disease, and health care. This course will provide a broad introduction to health geography through its coverage of various topics including infectious diseases, health disparities, and healthcare accessibility. It will use COVID-19 and other globally transmitted diseases as examples to illustrate how geographical methods can facilitate the understanding of social-environmental causes and social injustice of health problems. It will review popular quantitative and qualitative methods that are routinely used in public health and epidemiological investigations and demonstrate how the geographer's toolbox of spatial analysis methods can effectively improve public health. This course applies three main approaches to health geographic research: social/behavioral approaches, ecological approaches which focus on relationships between people and their environment, and spatial epidemiological approaches which apply maps and spatial methods to identify and understand patterns of disease.
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  • GEOG 3100: Intro to GIS

    4.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    This course introduces the major concepts and applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS are systems for the management, analysis, and display of geographic information. In this course, you will learn about spatial information, digital data, and how GIS is used as a tool to represent features, examine relationships between features, and display information. Lectures cover principles and concepts, as well as applications of GIS. Labs are designed to apply the concepts with hands-on exercises while becoming familiar with and learning the functionality of ArcGIS Pro software. The objective of the class is to learn to solve problems using GIS and display the information in a way that facilitates communication and understanding. In addition to lectures and lab exercises, we will learn and practice skills through in-class exercises and the final project, with the goal of being able to apply skills to solve real problems. This class fulfills a quantitative intensive (QI) requirement, which means the course content will develop analytic reasoning skills and deepen knowledge of quantitative methods. You will build upon and expand previous knowledge of quantitative method concepts by learning about and practicing the underlying quantitative theory behind core GIS concepts. The goal is that you will understand not just the software but also the theory when applying quantitative methods to practical issues and real-world problems via spatial analysis. Prerequisites: 'C' or better in MATH 1050 OR 1060 OR 1080 OR 1090 OR 1210 OR 1220 OR 1250 OR 1260 OR 1310 OR 1311 OR 1320 OR 1321 OR AP CalcAB/CalcBC score 3+ OR ACT Math score 26+ OR SAT Math score 640+ OR IB Math score 5+
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  • GEOG 3110: Intro to Remote Sensing

    3.00 Credits
    University of Utah

    Over the past decade there has been an extraordinary increase in the availability of remotely sensed images of Earth. Many people are now familiar with remotely sensed data through programs like Google Earth. The explosion in the availability of remote sensing data has coincided with a growing number of remote sensing applications. Remote sensing data are now used in anthropology, civil engineering, environmental sciences, geography, geology, hydrology, natural resource assessment, meteorology, and urban planning. This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach applicable to those fields, examining remote sensing theory, techniques, and applications. The course explores the physical basis for remote sensing and covers remote sensing technologies that use sunlight, infrared radiation, radar, and lasers. Five lab exercises give hands-on experience with real remote sensing data.
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