Dec 12, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

GC 100 - Physical Geography [SCII]


Offered Fall: Yes Offered Winter: Yes Offered Summer: Yes Offered Other: No
4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
General Education: Scientific Inquiry (SCII)  
This course examines interactions between the atmosphere, the Earth’s surface, water, and living things, as well as the role of humans in those interactions. Students will be able to explain the processes that drive Earth’s seasons, weather, climates, biomes, and landforms, and how they are impacted by human activities. Students will learn how to develop research questions, collect data, and produce and interpret graphs, maps, and figures relating to major geographic patterns and their processes.

Notes: Course does not meet the laboratory course graduation requirement.

Field work may be required.

Contact instructor for more information.