10 courses with the subject GEO, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
A survey of the major world regions and an introduction to basic principles of geography — location, place, region, movement, and human-environmental interactions. Emphasis is on the characteristics of place, global population, regional cultures, economic development, map reading, and current geographic problems. Fall and Spring.
A survey of the distribution and interrelationships of the natural phenomena on the surface of the earth. Emphasis on the use of maps. Spring.
This course investigates key relationships between natural environments and human culture, emphasizing the interrelationships between physical systems, social processes and anthropogenic environmental change. Students will understand the elements of and write an environmental impact study. Topics may include population densities, regional natural hazards and diseases, land use, food production systems (for example: slash and burn agriculture or terraced farming) and sustainability, impacts of global warming and climate change, public lands and resource conflicts, or habitat fragmentation and pollution. Fall and Spring.
A study of the distribution and interrelationships of landforms, climates, people, and cultural features of Europe. [G].
A survey of the cultural and physical geography of Canada and the United States. Seminar discussions of textbook and supplemental readings, including Muir, Carson, de Blieu, Suzuki, and others. Spring.
A study of the geographic distribution of natural and cultural phenomena in the countries to the south of the United States. [G].
This course explores the links between society and space — geography, criminal activity, conflict and terrorism, and genocide — focusing on problem-solving methods. Topics include the environmental causes of conflict, the geographic distribution of terrorist activities, and techniques for mapping crime statistics and reading political landscapes. Spring. Note: Also listed as POL 340.
A study of the distribution of economic activities on the surface of the earth. Topics include: demography, sources of raw materials, locations of manufacturing, transportation, and urban areas. [S]. Note: Also listed as ECO 350.
Geographers have studied place images since the 1970s, recognizing that all of us possess a geographic imagination. Visual media and journalism are primary ways that individuals obtain geographic knowledge about the world and culture, and environmental policy are matters of media. Culturally reproduced and mediated landscapes help form local and national identities, a sense of belonging and self-understanding as a people. This course explores and deconstructs how place and the environment are represented in geographic ‘texts’ — scientific discourse, tourist brochures, photographs, documentaries, and so on.
Student-driven research projects on geographic topics, including medical, economic, historical, or spiritual geography or geographic education. Spring. Note: Also offered as GEO 481 for one semester hour, and as GEO 482 for two semester hours. Courses of Instruction: History
Source: Barton College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
