FIELD EXPERIENCE IN GEOGRAPHY

Catalog description

(Slashed with GEOG 40285 and GEOG 70285 ) This course introduces students to field methods used in human and physical geography. Students spend most of the class hours outside investigating important local resources like the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where they are introduced to geographic approaches to real world problems. Specific field methods may include: landscape interpretation; atmospheric monitoring; hydrologic sampling; terrestrial habitat analyses; human and nature interactions; food desert investigation; urban green space ratios; and traffic data collection.