环境研究课程

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ENST 1 -环境研究入门    ( 3.00 - Units )
An interdisciplinary survey of contemporary environmental issues, including the natural and human-induced causes of environmental change and degradation. Major issues related to preservation and use of natural resources, conservation, energy, and climate change are investigated from multiple perspectives in the social sciences.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. 解释环境研究的跨学科性质,在知识和实践中必须借鉴的知识基础, analytical tools, 以及许多学科之间的交流,以便为环境问题设计出创造性的、有根据的解决方案.
  2. 阐明社会科学的核心概念和方法,因为它们与环境政策和制度的设计和评估有关.
  3. 描述道德准则, cross-cultural, 环境问题的历史背景以及人类与自然系统之间的联系.
  4. 评估人类活动, 包括能源和自然资源的使用, 影响自然环境, and how those activities have changed since the period of the Industrial Revolution.

GEO 1 -自然地理概论    ( 3.00 - Units )
地球的自然环境, 强调空间特征, change over time, 环境要素之间的相互作用, 以及人与环境的相互作用. 物理过程, techniques, 以及影响地球气候的工具, soils, vegetation, water resources, 土地形态与综合的全球格局相联系. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments. 实地考察可能是 included.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. 评估地理信息系统和遥感技术在观察和模拟物理过程中的有用性
  2. Critically differentiate regional similarities and contrasts in climate types, landform styles, biomes
  3. Describe the individuals' role in his/her natural environment
  4. 确定可用于识别和/或分类路边地形和岩石类型的观测技术

GEO 1L -自然地理实验室简介    ( 1.00 - Units )
Application of the concepts, techniques, tools, and materials of physical geography. 实际的练习, experiments, observations, data analyses, and computer applications/simulations which augment understanding of geographic processes, 相互关系, 空间格局和分布. Use of maps, remotely-sensed imagery, and geographic information systems. 包括位置参考系统, 时空关系, weather, climate, soils, vegetation, and landforms. 可能包括实地考察/实地项目.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. Articulate spatial interactions between atmosphere, ocean, and land surface
  2. Critically differentiate regional similarities and contrasts in climate types, landform styles, and biomes
  3. 评估新兴技术在观察物理过程和人类对自然环境的适应方面的有用性和价值
  4. 提高观察世界的技能

GEO 2 -文化地理学    ( 3.00 - Units )
Spatial analysis of human populations, their cultural traits, and activities. 强调民族的多样性, 通过他们的互动,通过他们对自然环境的感知和利用, 打造特色文化景观. Social, political, 以及促进全球和区域文化格局演变的地理经济因素. 可能包括实地考察.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. Explain the relationship of sustainable environments to changing patterns of population, food production, 日益增长的城市化, 以及人为引起的环境变化
  2. Identify significant patterns in the spatial organization of society, 包括人与人之间的互动, 他们的文化属性, and nature
  3. List and/or classify the visable components of the cultural landscape

GEO 3 -经济地理学    ( 3.00 - Units )
An introduction to the world’s major economic systems; their 空间分布 and characteristics; their relative contributions to regional development and global change; and related movements of people, goods, and ideas. Techniques and tools of spatial analysis applied to human-environment interactions, with emphasis on ecological problems associated with specific 经济活动. 可能包括实地考察.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. 描述不同的地理和经济条件如何影响专业经济活动的空间分布和资源的可用性
  2. 找出导致较发达国家和发展中国家之间经济财富和实力差距扩大的地理因素, and how regional disparities are represented by core-periphery relationships
  3. 讨论主要的定位理论, 二、三产业, 以及全球化的技术和信息系统如何改变了传统的区位模式

GEO 5 -世界区域地理    ( 3.00 - Units )
Regions of the world and the way humans live within those regions. Includes physical and cultural characteristics of world regions, 它们有什么相似之处,又有什么不同, economic patterns, agriculture, 工业发展与人口动态. Emphasis on contemporary major issues and their geographic impact.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. Describe the prominent characteristics of major world regions in terms of relative locations, places, and cultures
  2. Identify significant spatial relationships and patterns in society, including interactions between human and their natural environment
  3. 批判性地讨论更详细的内容并加以说明, with examples, 多元世界中的文化异同

GEO 8 -天气及气候概论    ( 3.00 - Units )
Introduction to weather and climate and their impact on and modification by human activities. 强调天气要素, events, and processes; climate controls; and the techniques, tools, 以及大气科学仪器. 包括大气光学, 天气预报, severe storms, air pollution, 全球/区域变暖/冷却, ozone depletion, acid rain, El Niño, deforestation, desertification, and other topics related to everyday experience and global climate change. 实地考察和观察活动可能包括在内.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. 评估地理信息系统和遥感技术在观测气候模式和天气系统方面的有用性
  2. Critically differentiate regional similarities and contrasts in world climate types
  3. 解释全球辐射平衡及其对全球大气环流格局的影响
  4. Identify the major globally-applicable physical processes affecting environmental change

GEO 10 -全球环境问题    ( 3.00 - Units )
人类活动与不断变化的全球环境之间相互作用的基本概念, 强调多学科方法. 环境变化的原因, 包括生态系统过程, the history of human population growth and demand for natural resources, 化石燃料消耗, land use change, 污染源. Economic and public policy issues pertaining to the sustainability of environments. 讨论参与和领导促进改善环境管理的动力.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. 评估人类活动, 包括能源和自然资源的使用, 影响自然环境, and how those activities have changed since the period of the Industrial Revolution
  2. 解释生物多样性的维持如何影响进化过程和增强生态系统的稳定性
  3. Identify the major globally-applicable physical processes affecting environmental change
  4. List the most significant observed changes in the atmosphere, ocean, 在过去的50年里

GEO 12 -加州地理    ( 3.00 - Units )
加州的物质、文化和地域元素. 自然地理基础包括:地理位置, geologic history, 地貌的省份, 自然灾害与资源, climate, water resources, vegetation, and soils. Historically developed cultural themes include: Native American and Hispanic origins, 迁移模式, settlements, population growth, ethnic diversity, land use, 经济活动, 和环太平洋航线. Human-environment interactions and issues are considered throughout the course. 可能包括实地考察.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. 评估人类活动, 包括能源和自然资源的使用, 影响自然环境, and how those activities have changed since the period of the Industrial Revolution.
  2. 展示地名识别和解释和分析加州地图信息的基本技能.
  3. 通过分析美国原住民和后来的移民群体的历史顺序,描述加州当代的多样化人口, especially in terms of California's economic development history.
  4. 描述韦德1946人与环境关系的主要文化观点的历史演变.
  5. 解释生物多样性的维持如何影响进化过程和增强生态系统的稳定性.
  6. 识别加州社会中重要的空间关系和模式,包括人类与自然环境之间的相互作用.
  7. 确定在倡导改变环境法律和条例的政治参与过程中通常使用的战略和技术.
  8. Identify the major globally-applicable physical processes affecting environmental change.

GEO 13 -气候研究    ( 3.00 - Units )
气候科学是一个快速发展的跨学科领域,专注于治理气候的原则, 气候变化, 气候变化及其对社会的影响. 气候系统的要素, atmospheric events and processes; factors controlling Earth’s climate types, 气候分类, and contemporary technological tools and instrumentation used in atmospheric science. Examination of the climate record, paleoclimates, and climate modeling and forecasting. Real-world investigations of climate change issues through observation, prediction, data analysis, 批判性思维. Emphasis on the influence of human activities on climate change, 全球和区域气候变化趋势, and both the scientific basis and policy implications of air pollution, global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, deforestation, and urbanization. The economic, social, 政治环境与日常经验和全球气候变化的潜在威胁相互作用. 实地考察和观察活动可能包括在内.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. observe, describe, and explain the elements and processes of Earth’s climate.
  2. apply the principles of atmospheric processes in explaining the classification, 空间分布, 以及全球和区域气候的改变.
  3. apply the principles of atmospheric processes in explaining the classification, 空间分布, 以及全球和区域气候的改变.
  4. 运用技巧, tools, 以及大气科学的观测仪器, 统计评估, portrayal, 以及气候变化的预测
  5. 评估气候对人类活动的影响,批判性地评估人类行为在影响长期气候变化方面的作用.
  6. 审慎评估社会和公共政策备选方案在缓解气候变化方面的价值和潜在效力, and adaptation to, climate change.

地理信息系统概论    ( 3.00 - Units )
基于计算机的信息技术工具和技术,分析位置和物理属性之间的空间关系, cultural, 经济特征. 地理关系的可视化,通过地图的互动联系来支持决策, databases, images, and charts. Introduction to GIS theory, principles, concepts, applications, and operations. 可能需要实地考察.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. Demonstrate a competent level of proficiency in techniques of spatial overlay of themes, 地图布局的设计和制作, 并对地理编码数据库信息进行分析
  2. Recognize spatial relationships between different tpes of map features: points, lines, polygons, symbols, legends, and scales, 评价和表达GIS的地理基础, as opposed to other graphical approaches to mapping and locating phenomena
  3. Identify appropriate uses of major GIS display and data-type components: data frames, tables, layout, charts, and manipulate then producting in the presentation of information

geo21 -利用GIS进行空间分析    ( 3.00 - Units )
地理信息系统通过矢量和栅格数据格式之间的交互联系,促进了空间关系和决策的可视化. 解决GIS原理的实际应用, industry-standard software tools and quantitative techniques to multi-layered thematic data. Students will acquire advanced hands-on GIS experience in managing, editing, merging, intersecting, and statistically analyzing spatial data from many diverse sources, 以及准备高质量的地图演示. 可能需要实地考察.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. Define and identify appropriate uses of major GIS display formats and data types, 并在特定的GIS界面(例如.g. 如何有效地操作它们
  2. 定义和生成基于单元格的地理参考数据网格数据集,并使用空间分析操作符进行查询, retrieve, 对连续数据进行分类
  3. Formulate geoprocessing and spatial intersection analysis functions appropriate in specific applications;  perform and evaluate the results of such processes (such as buffering, overlay, reclassification, address matching, 和统计分析)

GEO 22 -先进的地理信息系统应用    ( 3.00 - Units )
Practical, hands-on survey of some of the more advanced applications of GIS, 将向量, grid, 以及数字图像数据格式. 强调GIS工业标准软件工具的环境应用,定量分析空间问题, 包括网络分析, 分水岭建模, 数字高程建模, 数字图像处理, 以及多层专题数据的数字化校正. Includes integration of Global Positioning System (GPS) operational characteristics, GPS数据的采集和与GIS的接口. 可能需要实地考察.

学生学习成果(SLO)
  1. Demonstrate proficiency in spatial overlay techniques and themes with digital images, raster grids, and vector data.
  2. Demonstrate advanced skills in designing well-organized presentations, 包括详细地图, digital imagery, 还有图解和图表.
  3. Demonstrate proficiency in digitizing, and/or georeferencing new data for a GIS project.