Geography & Environment

Classes

GEO 101: The Natural Environment

Discipline
Geography & Environment
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3
Designation
DP

Survey of the natural environment; distribution and interrelationships of climates, vegetation, soil, and land forms.

Course Outcomes
  • Describe the components (inputs), processes (actions) and resulting spatial patterns (outputs) of the physical environment (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere) as a system.
  • Apply the scientific method, and theories and concepts of geography to explain a physical environment.
  • Explain critically the interaction of humans and the physical environment.
  • Illustrate how his/her views of the physical environment have (or have not) changed.

GEO 101L: The Natural Environment Laboratory

Discipline
Geography & Environment
Credits 1 Lab Hours 3
Designation
DY

Analysis by use of maps, air photos, field and laboratory observation, and experimentation. Emphasis on Hawai‘i and on human modification of environment. Required field trips during regular class hours.

Prerequisites

Credit for or registration in GEO 101.

Course Outcomes
  • Apply the scientific method to study a physical environment: Define a problem for a study, gather and record data, analyze the data, arrive at appropriate conclusions, and report the findings in written form.
  • Use various instruments, such as a compass, GPS unit and thermometer, to gather environmental data.
  • Use the metric system, scientific notation, graphs, and geographic and basic statistical measurements.
  • Write a lab report using the standard scientific format.

GEO 102: World Regional Geography

Discipline
Geography & Environment
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3
Designation
FGB

Geography 102 is a survey of the world’s major cultural regions. Environmental, cultural, political, and economic characteristics of each region and regional interactions are explored from a geographic perspective.

Course Outcomes
  • Demonstrate knowledge of basic geographic terms, locations, concepts, theories, and methodology.
  • Demonstrating an understanding of historical, social and environmental processes shaping the world’s major cultural regions.
  • Apply the knowledge of basic geographic terms, locations, concepts, theories, and methodology to critically explain current world events and issues and daily events.

GEO 151: Geography and Contemporary Society

Discipline
Geography & Environment
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3
Designation
DS

Elements of population geography and urban studies, economic geography and resource management; application to current problems of developed and underdeveloped countries.

Course Outcomes
  • Describe and map major themes in human society and culture: population, economy, politics, language, religion, customs, and conflict.
  • Apply scientific method, and theories and concepts of geography to explain the nature, history, and diffusion of the major themes.
  • Synthesize cross-cultural perspectives on current issues in the major themes.
  • Communicate the achievement in written form and/or in other artistic expressions such as photograph.

GEO 252: The Landscape of Japan: Natural, Cultural and Historical

Discipline
Geography & Environment
Credits 3 Lecture Hours 3
Designation
DS

Analyses of ordinary and symbolic landscapes of Japan from natural, cultural and historical perspectives. The course interprets a landscape synthesizing underlying physical, cultural and historical settings of the landscape.

Recommended Preparation

Knowledge of Japanese culture and language.

Course Outcomes
  • Identify and describe an ordinary or symbolic landscape of Japan
  • Describe the natural, cultural, and historical settings of Japan behind the landscape
  • Analyze the landscape by applying the natural, cultural, and historical settings.
  • Evaluate the landscapes of Japan through using local, national, and global perspectives