9 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.
GEO 2301Introduction to Urban Studies and Sustainability3
Credits: 3 hrs This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Urban Studies, the course will present models of how scholars approach cities from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints including: architecture, planning, law, sociology, history, political science, economics and geography. Students will learn some of the major concepts in the field of Urban Studies and they will study the works of leading scholars in the field over the last hundred years.
Credits: 3 hrs This survey of the regions of the world is an introduction to how the discipline of geography makes sense of the world, its differing people, places, and regions. Central to this disciplinary perspective is an emphasis on the ways in which people and places interact across space and time to produce particular outcomes. This unique perspective is increasingly important today as technological innnovations, the spread of political/economic ideologies, and the movement of people and goods across the globe have made most contemporary problems and solutions global in nature. It is important to recognize that this course is not an empirical survey of place names and national statistics. Rather, this course is an exploration of several key issues shaping our world today. Each of these case studies offers a unique perspective on the process now referred to as globalization. Each lecture will address an important issue in a way that highlights its historical roots, its local experience, and the global processes that shape it. It is hoped that upon completing this course, students will have a more nuanced understanding of the world, its people, and their place in an increasingly globalized world.
Credits: 3 hrs This course focuses on three aspects of North America: the physical setting, which includes glaciation, climate and physiography; the human/social realm, which discusses such topics as population distribution and racial groups, cities, the South and economic activities; and human-environment interaction on the continent.
Credits: 3 hrs This class will examine crtitical perspectives on social justice and geography through the lens of stuggles for enviormental justice and sustainability. This course begins from the premise that all people have the right to live, work, and play in environments free from toxins, pollution, and other hazards. Drawing on Porfressor Tom Perreault’s generative framing, we will “question why, and through what social, political, and economic processes, some people are denied this basic right”. The objectives is to answer this animating question through a rigorous examination of the environment justice (EJ) movement that began in Warren County, North Carolina. Leaders in the EJ movement use an intersectional framework to illustrate how capitalist production, structural racism, and socio-economic class interlock to make low-wealth communities of color more vulnerable to a range of evironmental in justices. Sustainability, which seeks to promote development and lifestyles that are “green, profitable, and fair”, has the potential to overcome these challenges. Potentially, resulting in a more just and sustainable future for all. Framed through a transdisciplinary approach, this course employs a range of critical reading strategies to question and unpack how notions of “the environment,” race, class, justice, place, sustainability, power, and resistance are configured, disputed, and (re)articulated through the prism of the state, civil society, and social movements.
GEO 2315Introduction to Geographic Information Systems3
Credits: 3 hrs In this course the student will be introduced to the concept of visualizing, exploring and analyzing data geographically. The student will obtain hands-on experience of display, analysis and presentation of mapping functions using the latest ArcView GIS software. The student will also be given an introduction to the fundamental concepts of geographical information science (geographic data acquisition, representation, analysis, and interpretation). Technologies reviewed include topographic mapping, global positioning systems, aerial photography, and satellite remote sensing. Assignments will be geared toward analysis of data and decision-making.
Credits: 3 hrs This course is a study of interurban and intraurban relationships, including analysis of spatial aspects of sociological, economic, and political phenomena.
Credits: 3 hrs This course analyzes the spatial distribution of economic activities globally. Focus is placed on the activities of humans in their physical and cultural setting. A classification of the economic world into the First and Third Worlds and the economic/sociocultural/ political/environmental variables accounting for the respective stages of development are discussed. The economies of North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are emphasized.
Credits: 3 hrs The course will introduce students to spatial and temporal analysis and other technologies, such as GIS, which are used as tools in analyzing, tracking, and presenting data such as information on crime, economic conditions, inequality, and community risk and protective factors. Students will learn how to gather and analyze demographic information and other data to better understand relationships and possible applications in the context of community problem-solving. The student will obtain hands-on experience of display, analysis and presentation of mapping functions using the laterst GIS software. The student will also be given an introduction to the fundamental concepts of geographical information science (geographic data acquisition, representation, analysis, and interpretation). Technologies reviewed include topographic mapping, global positioning systems, aerial photography, and satellite remote sensing. Assignments will be geared toward analysis of data and decision-making.
GEO 2315 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Latest Update(s) Approved by Academic Standards and Curriculum: October 2022
GEO 4345Applied Urban Studies Lab3
Credits: 3 hrs Cities are increasingly becoming locations for the accumulation of massive amounts of data that may provide opportunities for developing solutions to complex problems afflicting urban spaces. This course seeks to provide students with a foundation in urban data analysis. Students will be exposed to systematic approaches to collecting, analyzing, modeling, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative data through the use of multiple techniques used to inform robust research and policymaking. Beyond instruction in urban data science and analytics, students will be introduced to theory and critical discourses on topics such as big data, open data and e-governance. Instructors will expect students to engage with technical and theoretical - with particular focus placed on ethical - considerations associated with these subjects in lecture and laboratory sections.
