Course Descriptions

FILM 432 - Directing

• Examine the role of the director in film and television production, including the relationships between the director and other department heads.
• Assemble a production team and perform the role of the director on set.
• Manage and direct actors in auditions, rehearsals, and on the set.
• Defend a narrative blueprint and aesthetic vision for one or more films.
• Direct a final exercise that synthesizes the skills developed through the quarter.
• Evaluate and offer critique of other students’ work.

FILM 440 - Production IV

• Prepare a business proposal for client-based film production.
• Differentiate between different types of client-based film productions.
• Solicit and manage a client-based film production.
• Evaluate client-based films created in class and offer a critical analysis.

FILM 447 - Narrative Screenwriting I

• Identify/explain and demonstrate the effect of the manipulation of scene construction, cinematography and editing on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the effect of the manipulation of visual and aural continuity and discontinuity, temporal and spatial, on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the effect of the manipulation of semiotics (language, symbols, archetypes, mythic themes) on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the relationship between cognition and the creation and understanding of narratives.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the relationship between oral tradition and communication, and the creation of narrative and dialog in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain & demonstrate the development of theme, point-of-view, authorial voice, characters and setting on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.

FILM 450 - Production V

• Compare and contrast different types of documentary films.
• Prepare a research proposal for documentary film production.
• Outline and organize all aspects of pre-production for a documentary film project. 
• Create short films that demonstrate a fundamental understanding of documentary filmmaking.
• Evaluate documentary films created in class and offer a critical analysis.

FILM 452 - Applied Studio Production

• Prepare and manage all necessary aspects of a live television production
• Set up television studio lighting and audio schemes according to professional standards
• Evaluate a produced show so as to determine and explain whether professional standards have been achieved

FILM 453 - Wildcat Films

• Manage and organize client based film productions
• Assess submitted scripts for production readiness
• Plan and organize single camera narrative and documentary film projects.

FILM 456 - Advanced Concepts in Sound for Film and Stage

• Apply acquired skills to create a basic underscore for film and stage in a variety of formats.
• Apply acquired skills to record original effects as well as locate and evaluate royalty-free basic Foley sound effects. 
• Apply acquired skills to eliminate extraneous sounds from an audio recording. 
• Apply acquired audio editing skills in the creation of sound collage work.
• Apply acquired skills using digital audio workstation software to manipulate and create audio content.

FILM 457 - Narrative Screenwriting II

• Demonstrate comprehension of the creation of mood and tone in narrative screenwriting
• Demonstrate comprehension of the range of dialog techniques
• Demonstrate comprehension of the differences in gender, age and sub-group communication styles.
• Demonstrate comprehension of non-verbal communication techniques.
• Demonstrate comprehension of good scene development and description.
• Demonstrate comprehension of the skill of rewriting.

FILM 460 - Cinema Studies V: Advanced World Cinema

• Synthesize elements of one or more international film cultures, including historical evolution; aesthetic features; cultural, social and political influences; thematic explorations; and directorial schools and trends. 
• Analyze and critique particular films that are representative of the relevant international cinema.
• Assess trans-global impacts and the ongoing discourse with Hollywood cinema.
• Estimate the impact of colonialism and post-colonial forces on world cinema.

FILM 461 - Studies in Film and Culture

• Relate the history of a minority culture (the peoples of a specific race, ethnicity or culture) in film as subjects, actors and creators.
• Analyze “film image” in stereotype formation and social constructs of “self” vs. “other.”
• Critically examine the portrayal of a specific race, ethnicity or culture in film.
• Juxtapose the dominant discourse of the minority culture with the emerging use of film by members of that culture as part of a larger struggle for “cultural relevance and survivance”
• Critically discuss of how minority filmmakers & actors are reframing the discourse of film making.

FILM 462 - Studies in Film and/or Television Genres

• Describe the theory of genre as it applies to film and/or television
• Examine cinematic works/ television series of a single genre such as film noir, horror, animation, musical, etc.
• Articulate an overview of the dominant stylistic, thematic, and ideological features of a cinematic or television genre.
• Analyze, critically evaluate, and prepare critical reviews of films/TV series as characteristic of a specific genre.
• Recognize and articulate the cultural and social contexts that shape film genres in various historical periods, including issues of diversity and gender, American national identity, and international perspectives

FILM 463 - Studies in the Film Auteur

• Students gain understanding of the theory of auteurship and a broad overview of the set of major American and international auteur directors.
• Students will gain a n overview of the dominant stylistic, thematic, and ideological features of the works of select major American  and  international auteur directors.
• Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the cinematic works of a single auteur director such as Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Chabrol, John Ford, Zhang Yimou, Chaplin, Woody Allen, Bergman, etc.

FILM 467 - Narrative Screenwriting III

• Identify/explain and demonstrate the effect of the manipulation of scene construction, cinematography and editing on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the effect of the manipulation of visual and aural continuity and discontinuity, temporal and spatial, on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the effect of the manipulation of semiotics (language, symbols, archetypes, mythic themes) on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the relationship between cognition and the creation and understanding of narratives.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the relationship between oral tradition and communication, and the creation of narrative and dialog in screenplays and teleplays.
• Identify/explain and demonstrate the development of theme, point-of-view, authorial voice, characters and setting on the creation of narrative in screenplays and teleplays.​

FILM 470 - The Writer’s Room

• Develop and prepare potential story ideas.
• Outline and prepare story ideas into beat-sheets and treatments according to industry standards.
• Construct and present story pitches based on developed ideas.
• Compose a film script that adheres to industry standards.
• Assess and evaluate submitted scripts for story execution, character presentation, and thematic elements.

FILM 480 - Production VI

• Prepare and organize a script for production.
• Manage and arrange all aspects of pre-production.
• Plan and construct a film that demonstrates a professional level understanding of the filmmaking process.
• Justify various creative choices during production and post-production.
• Evaluate completed films and offer a critical analysis.

FILM 489 - Film Career Seminar

• Design a career strategy.
• Select and compile a portfolio of work.
• Assess performance and experience in film program.
• Analyze and reflect strengths and weaknesses of film program.

FILM 490 - Cooperative Education

FILM 491 - Workshop

FILM 492 - Practicum

• Propose a film or script project.
• Manage and lead a film production or develop a script, demonstrating professional practices that meet industry expectations. 
• Students will appraise their own performance regarding personal motivation, reliability, and good judgment, as well as professional attitude and good communication skills
• Student will present and receive criticism for a completed film production that meets deliverable requirements and receive criticism.

FILM 496 - Individual Study

FILM 497 - Honors

FILM 498 - Special Topics

FILM 499 - Seminar

FIN 101 - Financial Literacy

• Describe how developments in finance have made markets more efficient and improved the functioning of the economy and returns for investors over time. (ST-1)
• Recognize the ethical, economic, and social implications, and resultant political implications, of developments in finance. (ST-2)
• Formulate questions relating to long term company value that can be assessed using financial analysis techniques. (ST-3)
• Apply mathematical and quantitative reasoning to forecast future prospects of a company and assess overall investment worthiness. (ST-4) 
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of fundamental concepts within finance.  (WK-1)
• Demonstrate knowledge of scholarly and creative methods used within finance.  (WK-2)
• Demonstrate an understanding of conceptual financial models reflecting complex challenges and real-world issues.  (PCI-5)
• Determine credibility of financial information sources and understand elements that might temper this credibility.  (PCI-6)
• Develop approaches to address individual and/or societal financial health and financial well-being issues.  (HWB-4)
• Appraise key financial factors and strategies that propagate an individual’s personal, social, and professional future well-being.  (HWB-6)

FIN 174 - Personal Finance

• Recognize the importance of analyzing everyday purchases and determine whether “on sale” goods or services are truly the best buy based on a comparison of the per unit cost or percent savings of similar goods and services.
• Explain how to analyze, interpret and make decisions based on interest rate calculations, cost of credit calculations, investment fund options, insurance variables, budget analysis, savings, debt and financial goals.
• Calculate percentages, fractions and ratios to analyze relationship between one’s income, expenses, assets, and liabilities.
• Assemble basic statistical summaries, including mean, median, mode and range when analyzing various personal finance situations.
• Explain the hidden costs of credit by interpreting the fine print on purchase agreements, or in credit card offers.
• Evaluate investments options such making monthly investments versus one time investments, differing rates of return and time horizon affect the outcome of saving.

FIN 298 - Special Topics

FIN 299 - Seminar

FIN 370 - Introductory Financial Management

• Articulate basic financial concepts, markets, and institutions.
• Analyze financial statements (financial statements and financial statements analysis).
• Evaluate risk and return as they relate to interest rates, required rates of return, and weighted average cost of capital.
• Compute and apply the time value of money.
• Apply the valuation of financial securities: stocks and bonds.
• Apply capital budgeting methods: capital budgeting.

FIN 396 - Individual Study

FIN 397 - Honors

FIN 398 - Special Topics

FIN 399 - Seminar

FIN 466 - Working Capital Management

• Understand a firm’s short-term financing alternatives and the various strategies it can use to fund its current and long-term assets.
• Calculate various liquidity and solvency measures. They will be able to illustrate situations where a “profitable” firm can go bankrupt.
• Understand the various inventory models that deal with the timing and amount of raw material inventory purchases. They will be able to calculate the “optimal” inventory and order quantity. They will also be aware of various accounting systems used to monitor inventory balances.
• Evaluate a credit request and understand how various accounting systems and measurement techniques are used to monitor receivables balances. Students will also know how delinquent accounts should be handled and what alternatives a firm possesses to pursue past due accounts.
• Understand how firms can make the decision to take a cash discount and will be able to calculate the optimal payment timing. Students will also understand how controlled disbursement and zero balance accounts can be used to lengthen the firm’s disbursement float.
• Explain the positive and negative impacts of bank deregulation on the management of all the current accounts.
• Calculate short-term, intermediate-term and long-term forecasts. Additionally, they will be able to determine financing needs based on their forecasts.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a lockbox and concentration banking system in reducing a firm’s collection float. Students will also understand the various financial models used to make the cash and securities allocation decision. Students will also be aware of the characteristics of the major short-term marketable securities.
• Perform all calculations using spreadsheet cell formulas and built in functions. Students will also be able to create various types of graphs.

FIN 470 - Intermediate Financial Management

• Explain the importance of financial planning and capital utilization.
• Discuss the inter-relationships between operating cash flow, financial planning and growth
• Apply break even and/or what if analysis to consider capital budgeting problems.
• Calculate the cost of capital for a company
• Outline the processes companies can use to raise capital.
• Discuss the relationship between risk and return
• Summarize the basics of bankruptcy
• Explain the role of dividends in corporate valuation
• Prepare a cash budget and short term financial plan
• Summarize the potential impact of foreign exchange rates on corporate investments

FIN 474 - Personal Financial Planning

• Demonstrate knowledge of all aspects of personal financial planning, including budgeting, credit management, investing and investment markets, tax planning, risk management, retirement planning and estate planning.
• Demonstrate written communication skills.
• Demonstrate awareness of ethics as it relates to financial planning and investments.
• Demonstrate the ability to solve problems in financial planning using financial calculators and spreadsheets.
• Demonstrate awareness of ethics as it relates to investment management and professional codes of conduct in the investment industry.

FIN 475 - Investments

• Explain the basic structure and function of financial markets
• Design an investment portfolio that meets a defined objective regarding risk and return
• Prepare a security analysis of a company
• Compare the Efficient Market Hypothesis to behavioral financial theories.
• Evaluate a financial statement to make an investment determination
• Discuss the role of mutual funds as a means of investment
• Summarize basic investment principles

FIN 477 - International Finance

• Demonstrate knowledge in the principles and practices of financial management to international financial management.
• Communicate effectively in written financial reports.
• Demonstrate awareness of ethics and diversity as they relate to financial management in a global setting.

FIN 493 - Finance Boot Camp

• Prepare a research brief on each organization participating in the boot camp
• Exhibit professional behavior and appropriate business skills in industry setting.
• Establish a professional network within the industry professionals
• Illustrate an awareness of the organization(s) participating in the boot camp.

FIN 496 - Individual Study

FIN 497 - Honors

FIN 498 - Special Topics

FIN 499 - Seminar

FR 151 - First-year French

FR 152 - First-year French

FR 153 - First-year French

FR 181 - Rapid Review of First Year French (Put on reserve 9/16/17)

• Describe everyday topics in the present, past, future indicative in both oral and written contexts
• Employ elementary vocabulary and grammar appropriately in both oral and written contexts
• Distinguish appropriate use of indicative versus subjunctive moods in both present and past
• Examine cultural practices of Spain and Latin America
• Recognize appropriate use of vocabulary and grammar in both written and oral input
• Recognize and produce standard French pronunciation

FR 200 - Introduction to French Culture

• Describe how historical and socio-cultural developments in France such as the Revolution and colonial occupation have affected minority and majority communities and informed competing notions of citizenship and evolving political structures and practices.
• Describe and evaluate sociocultural diversity in contemporary French culture and explain how culturally diverse experiences create value within French society; use critical thinking to explain why certain quarters of the society fail to value France’s religious and cultural diversity.
• Apply critical thinking in order to analyze the ways in which equality and inequality are institutionalized in France’s socio-political, economic, and/or organizational structures.
• Identify and describe a number of French social movements and explain the importance of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class in relation to these social movements (how they inform both social justice movements and their ethnic nationalist counterparts).
• Describe and analyze local-to-global dynamics as they shape contemporary French culture within the broader context of interdependent global systems today.
• Compare and critically assess relationships between French models of citizenship to American models (compare and contrast what an informed citizen looks like in each model); and then explain in turn how these models are informed by historical, economic, cultural, economic, and political forces and processes.

FR 201 - Appreciation of French Cuisine

• Describe and evaluate the qualities of French cuisine accurately using the appropriate aesthetic and cultural terminology
• Identify techniques used in French cuisine and explain the value of these techniques in achieving an aesthetically elevated product
• Relate French cuisine to French culture and history and to evolving French aesthetic norms and traditions from the 19th century to the present
• Distinguish and explain the differences among divergent views and approaches to French cuisine in terms of regional, social class, and religious (among other) differences
• Apply aesthetic judgement and critical thinking by tasting and using appropriate vocabulary to evaluate/describe flavor profiles, textures, cooking techniques, etc.
• Identify and critically assess connections between dietary habits, cultural norms governing food and drink, and individual and societal health
• Identify and evaluate ways in which the relationship between personal, social, professional, and economic well-being is tied to (and expressed by) dietary habits and cultural norms governing food and drink

FR 251 - Second-year French

FR 252 - Second-year French

FR 253 - Second-year French

FR 298 - Special Topics

FR 299 - Seminar

FR 301 - Introduction to French Literature (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

FR 351 - French Civilization I: Pre-history to the Revolution

• Describe major historical developments in continental France from the pre- historical era to the French Revolution.
• Identify major movements and important people in the literature, plastic arts, and music of the pre-Revolutionary period in France.
• Identify some salient aspects of the historical development of the French language from the pre-Roman era to the Eighteenth century.
• Read a French history text book and literary works from the period written in French and summarize these works in appropriate written French.
• Identify the main points and/or summarize the basic argument of authentic video recordings in French in appropriate written French.
• Use spoken French to describe and evaluate a limited selection of cultural artifacts within their historical context in an organized and comprehensible manner to their peers.

FR 352 - French Civilization II: Revolution to 1968.

• Describe major historical developments in continental France from the Revolution to 1968.
• Identify major movements and important people in the literature, plastic arts, and music of France during the period between 1789 and 1968.
• Identify some salient aspects of the historical development of the French language during the period between 1789 and 1968.
• Read a French history text book and literary works from the period written in French and summarize these works in appropriate written French.
• Identify the main points and/or summarize the basic argument of authentic video recordings in French in appropriate written French.
• Use spoken French to describe and evaluate a limited selection of cultural artifacts within their historical context in an organized and comprehensible manner to their peers.

FR 353 - French Civilization III: Contemporary France

• Outline the basic lineaments of social issues unique to contemporary French society such as immigration, religion, globalization, and politics of the family.
• Identify and characterize major French media (including newspapers, television shows, social media outlets, and magazines) in regards to their treatment of contemporary social issues.
• Acquire a basic level of socio-linguistic awareness concerning the French spoken by minority and youth communities in France today.
• Read French newspapers and other contemporary print and online media written in French and summarize these works in appropriate written French.
• Identify the main points and/or summarize the basic argument of authentic video recordings in French in appropriate written French.
• Use spoken French to describe and evaluate a limited selection of cultural artifacts within their historical context in an organized and comprehensible manner to their peers.

FR 361 - Cultures of the French Caribbean

• Describe the broad historical development of French Caribbean culture from the colonial era to the present.
• Identify major movements and important people in the literature, plastic arts, and music of French Caribbean culture.
• Identify linguistic and dialectal particularities of French Caribbean culture in broad terms.
• Read French historical and anthropological treatments of the French Caribbean, and literary works from the region written in French, and summarize these works in appropriate written French.
• Identify the main points and/or summarize the basic argument of authentic video recordings in French in appropriate written French.
• Use spoken French to describe and evaluate a limited selection of cultural artifacts from the French Caribbean within their historical and cultural context in an organized and comprehensible manner to their peers.

FR 362 - Cultures in French Canada (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Describe the broad historical development of French Canadian culture from the colonial era to the present.
• Identify major movements and important people in the literature, plastic arts, and music of French Canadian culture.
• Identify linguistic and dialectal particularities of French Canadian culture in broad terms.
• Read French historical and anthropological treatments of French Canada and literary works from the region written in French, and summarize these works in appropriate written French.
• Identify the main points and/or summarize the basic argument of authentic video recordings in French in appropriate written French.
• Use spoken French to describe and evaluate a limited selection of cultural artifacts from francophone Canada within their historical and cultural context in an organized and comprehensible manner to their peers.

FR 363 - Cultures of Francophone Africa (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

• Describe the broad historical development of francophone African cultures from the colonial era to the present.
• Identify major movements and important people in the literature, plastic arts, and music of francophone African cultures.
• Identify linguistic and dialectal particularities of francophone African cultures in broad terms.
• Read French historical and anthropological treatments of francophone Africa, and literary works from the region written in French, and summarize these works in appropriate written French.
• Identify the main points and/or summarize the basic argument of authentic video recordings in French in appropriate written French.
• Use spoken French to describe and evaluate a limited selection of cultural artifacts from francophone Africa within their historical and cultural context in an organized and comprehensible manner to their peers.

FR 380 - Topics in French Language, Literature and Culture

• Identify and correctly utilize advanced grammatical and morphological concepts in French
• Express ideas on specific concepts orally and in well-organized compositions in French
• Identify literary and cinematographic phenomena and terminology within the context of French and Francophone history and culture
• Analyze French and Francophone literary texts and movies
• Identify cultural traits specific to French and Francophone cultures and analyze them within an historical context
• Analyze French and Francophone cultures and compare them to other cultures

FR 384 - Defying Nazism: German and French Resistance during WWII

• Identify and describe the ways in which beliefs and values affect interpretations of experiences and events.
• Interpret the events experienced in France and Germany from WWI to WWII and compare them to similarly significant historical events.
• Identify the causes of the German and French Resistance movements. 
• Examine and explain the effects of the German and French Resistance movements on the government and citizens of each country.
• Recognize the interrelatedness of human concerns that transcend geographical and cultural boundaries.
• Identify and interpret the significance of salient cultural and historical details of resistance movements.

FR 396 - Individual Study

FR 397 - Honors

FR 398 - Special Topics

FR 399 - Seminar

FR 460 - French Cinema (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Identify the major genre of French cinema and apply their individual characteristics to specific films shown in class.

FR 491 - Workshop

FR 496 - Individual Study

FR 497 - Honors

FR 498 - Special Topics

FR 499 - Seminar

GEOG 101 - World Regional Geography

• Recognize the key factors shaping contemporary demographic, environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic issues in major world regions.
• Apply course concepts and disciplinary language to interpret how ethnic diversity, social inequality, and similar dimensions of difference are manifest in economic and political systems in major world regions.
• Propose ways in which the student can participate meaningfully and ethically in the economy, politics, and the environment at the global scale.
• Use the concepts of geography generally and ideas taught in world regional geography in particular to analyze development problems.

GEOG 107 - Our Dynamic Earth

• Describe how geographic research provides greater understanding of Earth’s physical environment and its implications for human sustainability and decision-making at various scales. 
• Describe how physical geographers use the scientific method to generate testable hypotheses about real-world physical phenomena using such tools as maps, remotely-sensed images, and field observations. 
• Gather and statistically analyze quantitative data regarding the spatial and temporal variability of the Earth’s physical systems and environments, and evaluate the validity those findings.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the fundamental processes and components of each of the five spheres of the physical environment (i.e., atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and pedosphere) and how they affect current issues and sustainability at local to global scales.
• Apply knowledge of physical geography concepts gained in the classroom to propose solutions to current real-world problems and address issues of sustainability.

GEOG 111 - The Power of Maps

• Explain how people make maps using digital technology, and discuss possibilities for addressing real-world problems using digital and online maps.
• Discuss and put in practice the science of how maps communicate, including the elements of measurement, spatial reference, database technology, and artistic design that allow the earth to be represented digitally and on paper.
• Demonstrate how GPS and other satellite-based navigation systems can operate in tandem with spatial databases to solve problems.
• Tell what a geographic information system (GIS) is and list career opportunities that use GIS, maps, and other location technologies.
• Use an online mapping and analysis program to demonstrate how GIS can support decision making
• Explain how social and cultural contexts and design choices by a cartographer influence maps. Interpret maps from the news and current events with a critical eye.
• Discuss privacy and surveillance issues associated with maps and location technology.
• Explain how maps can empower. Give examples of how maps have been used for social justice, sustainability, and crisis response.
• Explain how maps can endanger and marginalize. Give examples of how maps have been used for earning money, obtaining power, instigating conflict, and enabling violence.
• Use virtual reality and 3D visualizations to enhance an understanding of a place or tell a story more effectively through maps.

GEOG 208 - Our Human World

• Define the role of space, place, scale, environment, and location in shaping the cultures of the world including religious faith, language, and other attributes.
• Explain the relevance of geographical theories including territoriality, the demographic transition, and the new international division of labor to the relationships among places, individuals, and society.
• Employ human geography techniques taught in class to analyze real-world data.
• Apply theories and concepts taught in the course with information collected by the student to examine a cultural phenomenon.
• Analyze the ways in which people organize space to foster either greater equality or greater inequality in societies.

GEOG 250 - Resource Exploitation and Conservation

• Identify the variety of natural resources present in our world today (for example, perpetual, renewable, non-renewable, and potential resources) and the principal methods of extraction, exploitation, and conservation.
• Identify and explain the physical, social, economic, technological, and political factors that determine natural resource availability, consumption, and conservation.
• Interpret local and regional landscapes in terms of historical processes, policy, and patterns of natural resource extraction
• Assess specific resources (agriculture/food production, energy, water, forest, marine resources) in terms of the factors fostering overexploitation and to assess alternative solutions for conservation.

 
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
12/7/17

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

GEOG 273 - Geography of Rivers

• Recognize the variety of diverse cultural, social, political, and economic drivers and institutions present in modifying riparian corridors.  Students will analyze how these diverse stakeholders and institutions affect issues of equality, access to resources, and human well-being.
• Define and explain the economic impacts, social processes, and political factors that influence floodplain development and management.  Students will analyze how these modifications affect the sustainability and ecologic viability of floodplain ecosystems.
• Analyze the relevant laws and policies governing water management and how they affect water allocations, and ecological conditions.  Students will describe the adaptation of environmental laws and management policies that impact riverine infrastructure and its use.
• Describe the adaptation of environmental laws, the theories behind the creation of those management policies that impact riverine infrastructure, their use, and their impact on sustainability and ecologic viability of floodplain ecosystems.  
• Recognize the ecological impacts anthropogenic modification of riparian habitats has on various species.

GEOG 279 - Geography of the West

• Identify and describe the physica, human, and resource geography of the area studied.
• Collect and analyze data on physical, human, and resource issues of the area studied, then communicate the results of the analysis to their peers.
• Demonstrate proficiency in functioning as a member of a group in an outdoor setting.

GEOG 290 - Cooperative Education Field Experience

GEOG 298 - Special Topics

GEOG 299 - Seminar

GEOG 301 - Introduction to GIS and Maps

• Demonstrate knowledge of basic cartographic principles such as scale, direction, and symbolization.
• Provide evidence of competence in describing location using standardized coordinate systems and datums.
• Show ability to interpret basic terrain symbolization on maps (e.g. contour lines).
• Exhibit knowledge of GIS software, including basic data management and display.
• Provide evidence of cartographic interpretation skills that may be used in a variety of other geography classes.
• Combine knowledge learned through lecture, labs, reading, and software skills.

GEOG 303 - GIS and Data Management

• Demonstrate knowledge of data representation in GIS (raster, vector, attributes, time, topology), data types, data quality, metadata, and data capture).
• Have knowledge of general GIS functionality, including display, overlay, and analysis.
• Interpret basic terrain symbolization on maps (e.g. contour lines).
• Demonstrate knowledge of computer-based skills using modern GIS software.
• Have knowledge of the general context of GIS , including: What is GIS and how is it used? History and trends in GIS.
• Combine knowledge learned through lecture, labs, reading, and software skills.

GEOG 304 - Economic Geography

• Learn the differences between primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary economic activities, particularly the different factors that affect how they are located.
• Develop knowledge of economic models of how different activities are located within and among regions.
• Learn how human activities have transformed the environment and how these activities are motivated by economic incentives.
• Gain computer skills through lab exercises to obtain information and data from on­line sources and learn how to use computer technologies in appropriate ways to present and analyze that data.
• Obtain knowledge of an economic issue in the region by doing a research paper on a topic within the Pacific Northwest, taking pictures/slides for final project presentation. This written and oral presentation will improve their research, writing, and presentation skills.

GEOG 305 - Introduction to Land Use Planning

GEOG 306 - Transportation Geography and Planning

• Analyze a transportation problem from a spatial perspective.
• Perform and interpret transportation network analyses.
• Evaluate the role of transportation in affecting contemporary patterns of economic development.
• Develop a viable urban or regional transportation plan.

GEOG 308 - Cultural Geography

• Identify key elements of human culture and their manifestations in the landscape at a variety of scales.
• Identify and analyze the socio- economic, political, religious, and technological forces affecting the connections between places.
• Describe the diffusion and adaptation of a cultural trait or technological innovation effectively using concepts taught  in the course.
• Develop an understanding of the emergence of cultural geography as a sub discipline, including major paradigms and approaches to the geography of culture.

GEOG 311 - Qualitative Methods in Geography (Put on reserve 9/16/17)

• Explain how qualitative research contributes to scientific knowledge.
• Master data collection and analysis skills to conduct qualitative research independently and proficiently.
• Demonstrate knowledge about research ethics and know how to practice them when conducting research.
• Identify the need for engaged scholarship, and community based research.
• Conduct sensitive research that is aware of power dynamics in the research relationship, and to mitigate imbalances through strategies of reflexivity, situation, transparency, accountability and reciprocity.
• Survey critical insights from post-structural, postcolonial and feminist literature on qualitative methodologies.

GEOG 325 - Field Methods in Geography

• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic tools, techniques, and methods used for field data collection in physical and/or human geographic inquiry.
• Explain the key techniques and theoretical approaches of different geographic field research methods.
• Demonstrate the ability to evaluate appropriate data collection methods for specific types of field research.
• Design a field‐based study, collect, organize, and analyze data, and integrate scientific literature to interpret and summarize results.
• Demonstrate the ability to work effectively as part of a group in a field context.

GEOG 330 - Airphoto Interpretation

• Demonstrate knowledge of scale, projections, theories and physics of light by applying them on specific assignments.
• Interpret topographic maps and aerial photographs using metadata and physical keys of scale.
• Explain how and where to access analog and digital maps and aerial photos on the CWU campus, in the public and private sphere for use in different projects.
• Collect field data and then construct a dataset overlaying field data on aerial photographs, and maps.
• Calculate height, distance, and area using aerial photo and digital imagery.

GEOG 346 - Political Geography

The spatial structure of political units. The effect of political, economic, social, and Earth resource factors on the areas, shapes, and boundaries of these units, and on the distribution of populations and institutions. Course will be offered every year (Winter).

Credits: (4)

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

GEOG 352 - Geography of North America

• Identify the locations of main cultural and political features of North America.
• Identify the physical features and processes that characterize North American sub regions.
• Analyze the interconnection of physical and human systems in North America.
• Interpret the causes and frameworks of contemporary political, social, economic, and environmental issues in North America.
• Identify and interpret the historical foundations of North American culture, society, politics, economies, and landscape change.
• Analyze the complexity of North American cultural landscapes at multiple scales.

GEOG 355 - Geography of the Pacific Northwest

• Learn locations of major physical and human geographic features of the United States Canada and Mexico, including mountain chains, rivers and lakes, urban areas, and political units such as states and provinces.
• Develop knowledge of diverse environments of the three countries, including geologic and geomorphologic conditions, climate and weather patterns, and floral and faunal assemblages.
• Develop a knowledge of aboriginal (First Nations) population distributions and lifeways on the continent, of colonial invasion and settlement, natural resource exploitation schemes, and subsequent economic and political developments leading to transportation improvements, industrialization, and urbanization.
• Learn the art of map interpretation using both physical and thematic cartography.
• Improve their research, writing and presentation skills.

GEOG 361 - Soils

• Identify the various soil processes and factors, and the resulting soil properties.
• Communicate in the language of the discipline.
• Apply the basic concepts of soils to the various pedogenic processes.
• Demonstrate the use of the various tools and techniques of soils.

GEOG 366 - Geography of the Middle East

• Identify and interpret the principal physical, environmental, demographic, cultural, economic and geopolitical characteristics of the Middle East.
• Identify place names and major physical and cultural features of the Middle East.
• Describe and interpret issues surrounding the Arab Israeli conflict, including social, political, and economic characteristics.
• Redraw the maps of the Middle East to reflect knowledge learned about the region using computer mapping programs.
• Analyze current issues relevant to a Middle Eastern country of their choice, keep a well written journal of these events and be prepared to report on this in class.

GEOG 368 - Geography of Middle America

• Identify the locations of main cultural and political features of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
• Identify the physical features and processes that characterize middle America as a region.
• Analyze the interconnection of physical and human systems in the region.
• Analyze contemporary political, social, economic, and environmental issues in Middle America.
• Link the historical foundations of Middle American culture, society, politics, economies, and landscape change to contemporary regional characteristics.

GEOG 370 - Geography of South America

• Identify the locations of main cultural and political features of South America.
• Identify the physical features and processes that characterize South America as a region.
• Analyze the interconnection of physical and human systems in the region.
• Analyze contemporary political, social, economic, and environmental issues in South America.
• Link the historical foundations of South American culture, society, politics, economies, and landscape change to contemporary regional characteristics.

GEOG 371 - Geography of Europe

• Identify the locations of the main economic, cultural and political features of Europe
• Identify the geophysical features and processes that characterize Europe as a distinct region.
• Analyze the interconnection of physical and human systems in the region.
• Analyze contemporary economic, political, cultural, and environmental issues in Europe.
• Link the historical foundations of European society, economics, politics, culture, and landscape change to contemporary regional characteristics.

GEOG 372 - Geography of Russia

• Demonstrate knowledge of the principal physical, environmental, demographic, cultural, economic and geopolitical characteristics of Russia and its neighbors.
• Demonstrate knowledge of place names, and major physical and cultural features of the region.
• Give a coherent, concise, and effective oral presentation describing and analyzing a place, problem or trait in the region.
• Analyze the impact of the historical geography of the Soviet Union on the new countries that have replaced it.
• Analyze an issue concerning Russia and its neighbors through careful research and writing.