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Nov 10, 2024
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GEOG 448 - Geographic Approaches to Environmental Resource Analysis Description: Examination of the techniques and methodologies used for the evaluation and sustainable management of environmental resources from a variety of perspectives.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites: GEOG 107 and GEOG 250.
Credits: (5)
Learner Outcomes, Activities and Assessments
Learner Outcome
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Activity (optional)
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Assessment
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Students will outline the legal and managerial boundaries of environmental analysis, including: administrative tools, key concepts, and terminology.
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Through homework and tests, students will identify the managerial authority of local, state, and federal agencies in environmental conservation and preservation. Students will be able to look at a specific issue and identify impacted stakeholders.
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Students will demonstrate linkages between environmental issues at local, State, National, and International contexts.
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Students will diagnose the linkages between environmental issues at all scales, tracing the interplay between physical conditions and land-use decisions.
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Students will examine state and U.S. management systems for water, land, and air quality.
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Students will read technical papers and derive the methods and limitation of these quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis.
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Students will create an experimental design project to demonstrate a recognition of how to control for a variety of environmental variables.
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Through a problem-based exercise students will design a series of protocols that will allow them to isolate a variable and test its change in the natural environment.
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Students will construct field tests to monitor environmental conditions for a variety of resources including vegetation and geomorphic change.
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Through a series of field-based class sessions, students will develop a study plot designed to monitor change to an environmental variable of their choosing.
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