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STANDARD COURSE OUTLINE College of Liberal Arts Department of Geography General Information Course Number: 141 Title: Introduction to Physical Geography Laboratory Units: 1 Prerequisites or corequisites: Geography 140 or Geology 102 and a course that fulfills the A.1 GE requirement. Prior or concurrent enrollment in a course that fulfills the B.2 requirement is strongly recommended. Course Classification: 1 unit at C15 Responsible Faculty: C.M. Rodrigue, S. Dallman, P. Laris, C. Lee, S. Wechsler, C. Holmgren Terms Offered: every semester Prepared by: Christine M. Rodrigue Date of Submission/Revision: Fall 2007 Catalogue Description Laboratory and field study of the physical environment, emphasizing application of such geospatial techniques as GPS, remote sensing, cartography, GIS, and geostatistics. Course fee may be required (3 hours laboratory and field activity). Expected Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: understand Earth-Sun relationships as they affect incoming solar radiation at various latitudes and seasonality understand the electromagnetic spectrum and the distribution of solar energy and Earth-emitted energy across that spectrum become familiar with a variety of remote sensing images and the sensors that produced them in terms of spatial, spectral, radiometric, and temporal resolution be able to interpret remotely sensed images of natural and human-altered landscapes be able to collect field data in a GPS unit and transfer the data into a GIS for mapping and analysis understand the elements of effective map communication of physical features and processes be able to produce maps of the physical environment from field-collected data be able to produce maps of the physical environment in a GIS, using either field or archival data be able to interpret maps of the physical environment and infer processes from spatial patterns be able to characterize data with basic descriptive statistics be able to