Spring 2013  |  GEOG 5401 Section 001: Geography of Environmental Systems and Global Change (52855)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GEOG 3401 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 230
Course Catalog Description:
Processes that create/change the spatial patterns of climate, vegetation, and soils. Potential of humans to alter climate, vegetation, and soil processes. Possible impacts of human-altered environmental conditions.
Class Description:
The underlying theme to this course is that the natural environment provides the resources that sustain humans, and that our well being depends crucially on our interaction and interdependence with the natural environment. We have three main objectives: 1. to understand the processes that create the patterns of the natural environment, specifically the patterns of climate, vegetation, soils, and landforms; 2. to comprehend how changes in the processes may influence spatial patterns; and 3. to study the potential of humans to cause changes in processes, spatial patterns, and ultimately, our natural resources. The course topics will be covered with a mixture of lectures, discussion, and computer-based lab work. Lab projects focus on environmental concepts discussed in class (climate, vegetation, and soils geography) and the lab projects lead up to each student's final project. The final (term) project involves evaluating the local effects of global climatic change. Your analysis will focus primarily on a location within the United States (for which information will be more easily available). Your first task will be figuring out the current natural environment (climate, vegetation, and soils) for your location. Next you will determine the likely climatic changes at your location under doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide as predicted by several climate models.
Grading:
15% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
35% Written Homework
20% Additional Semester Exams
Exam Format:
essay
Class Format:
70% Lecture
30% Discussion
Workload:
40 Pages Reading Per Week
30 Pages Writing Per Term
3 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
4 Homework Assignment(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52855/1133
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/klink_GEOG3401_Spring2018.pdf (Spring 2018)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/klink_GEOG3401_Spring2017.pdf (Spring 2017)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 October 2012

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