Essential concepts include the interconnectedness of people and places, interactions between society, culture, and nature and the relationships between development, difference, and inequality. Topics may include population dynamics, cultural differences and identity, urbanization, globalization, geographies of power, natural and built human environments, food systems and agricultural geographies, and economic development.

Essential concepts include the interconnectedness of people and places, interactions between society, culture, and nature, and the relationships between development, difference, and inequality. Topics include: population dynamics; cultural differences and identity; urbanization; globalization; geographies of power; natural and built human environments; food systems and agricultural geographies; economic development.

Introduces cultural geography as a field of analysis concerned with the interactions between meaning, space, and social power. Examines cultural objects, including literature, music, films, and architecture to explore the diverse meanings, experiences, and social conflicts shaping places, regions, and spatial processes in the United States.

Spatial patterns and underlying processes of the physical environment and biosphere, including climate, vegetation, soils, landforms, and water resources. The role of human activity in shaping and influencing the behavior of the earth's biophysical systems is examined from local to global spatial scales.

Optional laboratory for Introduction to Physical Geography.

Atmospheric composition and structure, clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric motion and winds. Organized weather systems, including air masses, fronts, and severe weather. Discussion of global climates includes circulation, wind systems, climate classification, and climate change.

Atmospheric composition and structure, clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric motion and winds. Organized weather systems, including air masses, fronts, and severe weather. Discussion of global climates includes circulation, wind systems, climate classification, and climate change.

Optional laboratory for Introduction to Weather and Climate.

Introduction to major landscapes and landforms around the world, with emphasis on human interactions with geologic hazards, land management, and environmental policies related to earth surface processes and landforms. Students will engage with digital imagery, aerial photos, field observations, and archival and other types of geographic data to explore relationships between landforms, climate, and humans.

Introduction to major landscapes and landforms around the world, with emphasis on human interactions with geologic hazards, land management, and environmental policies related to earth surface processes and landforms. Students will engage with digital imagery, aerial photos, field observations, and archival and other types of geographic data to explore relationships between landforms, climate, and humans.

Optional laboratory for Exploring Earth's Surface: Landforms and Environments.

Interactions between physical systems and human activities, and their effects on environmental quality and sustainability. Geography of population and resource consumption, food production, water and air quality, energy policy, land/biotic resource management.