Geography

• GEO 105: Cultural Geography
• GEOG 110: Geography of Environmental Systems
• GEOG 260: North America's Landscapes

GEO 105: Cultural Geography

Self-paced Correspondence

An introductory game/project-oriented course concerned with the characteristics, description, development, and spatial arrangement of world cultures or “ways of life.”

• Instructor: David G. Bennett, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Greensboro
• Meets UNC-Greensboro General Education requirements
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 5
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Text

• Bennett and Patton, Applied Human Geography, 6th edition (2005)

You may purchase the textbook at the Higher Grounds bookstore in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. 

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GEOG 110: Geography of Environmental Systems

Self-paced Correspondence

This course is temporarily closed to enrollment. An assessment of the occurrence, characteristics, and interrelationships of the earth's climates, landforms, natural vegetation, and soils, especially as they influence man's attempt to utilize his environment.

• Instructor: Cheryl Warren, PhD
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• UNC-Chapel Hill perspectives/requirements fulfilled: The Office of Undergraduate Curricula has links to information about which perspectives this course fulfills under the “Pre-2006 Curriculum” and which requirements it fulfills under the new curriculum (see “2006 Curriculum”).
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 12
• A sample course syllabus is not available at this time.

Required Texts

• Christopherson, Geosystems:  An Introduction to Physical Geography, 4th edition (2000)
• Christopherson, Study Guide for Geosystems:  An Introduction to Physical Geography, 4th edition (2000)

You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. 

Students will also need to obtain, on their own, a map of North Carolina or their home state and a topographic map of their local area (this can be obtained from the US Geological Survey; directions for ordering are provided upon enrollment).

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GEOG 260: North America's Landscapes

Self-paced Correspondence

This course introduces a geographic framework for understanding the regional landscapes of the United States and Canada. Emphasis is on variation across space, change over time, and the role of the physical environment in the development of today's human geographies in North America.

• Instructor: G. Rebecca Dobbs, MA
• Credit-granting Institution: UNC-Chapel Hill
• Credit Hours: 3
• Submitted Assignments: 12
• View a sample course syllabus.

Required Texts

• Birdsall, Florin, and Price, Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada, 5th edition (1999)
• Brewer and Suchan, Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of US Diversity (2001)
• Coursepack

You may purchase the textbooks at the Higher Grounds bookstore in person, online, or by mailing or faxing in the book order form. Refer to the online ordering site for current book prices. 

• Students are also required to obtain from the publisher a Raisz Landforms of the United States map (ordering instructions are included in the course manual).

Optional

• An atlas of the student's choice; recommended is Hudson, Goode's World Atlas, 20th edition (1999)

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