With lab. Description and analysis of deformation and deformation processes at scales ranging from minerals to mountain belts. Topics include: faults, folds, construction of cross-sections, interpretation of structural fabrics, stress, strain, plate tectonics, New England geology, and the geologic history of North America. Emphasis on three-dimensional visualization of geologic features and practical solutions to structural problems relevant to industry and research. Several short field trips (during lab) and one weekend field trip. Prerequisites: GEO-SCI 201 and 311.

With lab. Description and analysis of deformation and deformation processes at scales ranging from minerals to mountain belts. Topics include: faults, folds, construction of cross-sections, interpretation of structural fabrics, stress, strain, plate tectonics, New England geology, and the geologic history of North America. Emphasis on three-dimensional visualization of geologic features and practical solutions to structural problems relevant to industry and research. Several short field trips (during lab) and one weekend field trip. Prerequisites: GEO-SCI 201 and 311.

Introduction to human geography perspectives on the historical transformation of the earth and current environmental issues. Political ecology explores the diverse, complex spatially and temporally variable, multi-scale and often place/region specific politics, political economy, and socio-cultural dynamics of environmental change and conservation. Special attention to communities, Indigenous peoples, women, environmental and social justice movements, and contested "development" and conservation initiatives.

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Fundamentals of the earth/atmosphere energy balance, the hydrologic cycle, atmospheric motion, and the general circulation of the atmosphere. Regional and local climates. How climate affects people's activities and how people influence climate. Climate change, its causes, and its effects. Prerequisite: introductory course in weather and climate (e.g., GEO-SCI 100 or ASTRON 105).

Mapping projects through the use of software mapping packages. Students select their own final projects.

Methods of data analysis and visualization useful in geographic research. Descriptive and inferential statistics through linear regression and analysis of variance, with applications of quantitative methods to spatial data. Examples drawn from both human and physical geography. Extensive use of computers. (Gen.Ed. R2)