This course meets the following General Education Abilities by accomplishing the
specific learning objectives listed below:

A basic understanding of physical, biological, and extraterrestrial  processes that
influence the spatial expression of fluvial systems at local and regional scales;

An appreciation of the diversity of fluvial landforms and linkages with other
environmental systems;

An ability to recognize the reciprocal interactions between human action,
modification of the fluvial systems, and past/future global environmental change.


This course meets the following General Education Abilities, by accomplishing the
specific learning objectives listed below:

Communicate effectively through writing.  This is met by a series of writing 
assignments associated with supplemental reading and data analysis.

Computer Literacy is addressed through course administration, student-faculty 
electronic interaction, and data analysis activities and assignments.

Critical Thinking is central to the learning objectives of this class, and are 
developed through homework assignments, lecture, classroom discussion, and inquiry-
based learning efforts.
       
Moral Reasoning (Ethics) is an important element of this course, as it explores 
linkages among the physical environment, hazards, human health and welfare, and 
appropriate technologies.  Moral reasoning is developed through lectures, writing 
assignments, classroom discussion, and inquiry-based learning activities.

Drainage Basin Characteristics, Influences, and Evolution, pp. 1-95
1. Introduction
2. Climate influence on fluvial systems 
3. Drainage networks
4. Catchment hydrology
5. Geology and landcover influence on surface water hydrology
6. Catchment denudation and sediment yield

Fluvial Processes: Water and Sediment Transport and Deposition
7. Mechanics of flow
8. Erosion and sediment transport
9. Sediment deposition
10. Alluvial landforms
11. Alluvial stratigraphy and soils

Channel Form and Adjustments
12. Adjustment of channel form
13. Cross sectional form
14. Bed configuration/Bedforms
15. Channel patterns and planimetric view
16. Channel gradient and longitudinal profile

Change in Channel Form
17. Changes in channel morphology
18. Effect of floods on channel morphology
19. Human impacts on fluvial geomorphology