GEOG 141 Natural Environment

This course is designed to introduce geographic concepts and major components of the physical environment including landforms, weather patterns, global climates, and global flora and fauna distribution patterns. Students will apply geographic principles, theories, and methods to understand and identify the processes shaping the Earth's surface, including analysis of extreme weather events, human impacts on environmental change, and natural processes found with American national parks.

Credits

4

General Education Requirements

Sci/Math/CS Non-Lab

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify the breadth of physical geography through themes of systems and environments 
2. Explain the interconnectedness of natural phenomena on Earth through scientific methodology 
3. Identify absolute and relative locations on the Earth's surface 
4. Interpret concepts related to systems and cycles of weather and climate, tectonic processes, landform evolution, glaciation, and the biosphere
5. Articulate basic scientific writing and research skills 
6. Evaluate different approaches to the study and methods of geographic observation