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Fall 2018
Dec 10,2024 |
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| GEOG 100 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: GEOGRAPHY |
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Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Geography Department |
| GEOG 101 - PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY |
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Physical Geography examines natural systems and processes that shape the landforms, climate, and vegetation around us. After providing historical perspectives about changes in the interpretation of geological and hydrological cycles, the course introduces three disciplines that collectively encompass
physical geography: geomorphology, climatology, and biogeography. The landforms of uplift and erosion will be examined through readings, lectures, visuals, and fieldwork. Atmospheric processes that shape climate and weather will be introduced, followed by a look at some issues affecting soils and vegetation. The public policy consequences of these issues, from natural hazards to global warming, will be examined. The course requires students to make individual field—based observations of the natural environment. This course fulfills the General Education category-Scientific Reasoning. Our contemporary culture faces increasing
distrust in scientific principles. Only citizens with basic scientific sensibility can grapple with the complexity, diversity, and change they will face.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Geography Department Course Attributes: Gen Ed 2018, Gen Ed 18-Scientific Reasoning, OLD GE-SCIENCE W EXPERIENTIAL |
| GEOG 198 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
| GEOG 199 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
| GEOG 200 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: GEOGRAPHY |
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Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Geography Department |
| GEOG 210 - WATER RESOURCES |
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An overview of water issues, both regional and global, based on the physical and cultural geography of fresh water. Physical aspects include the hydrologic cycle, regional water budgets, stream flow processes, and groundwater aquifers. Resource management issues include examination of drinking water and sewage treatment, floods and floor mitigation approaches, the pros and cons of dams, lake management, freshwater fisheries, and water pollution. Case studies will be drawn from the local area and from other parts of the world. Several classes are held in the field, and there will be guest speakers who have worked on water issues in thus region. This course fulfills the General Education category Systems Sustainability and Society. This category is intended to include mostly science and social science courses that take either a qualitative or quantitative approach to the scientific method. (Water Resources includes both qualitative and quantitative approaches, and incorporates both science and social science.) The category recognizes that there are different approaches to, and debates over, scientific inquiry (science or social science), scientific methods, and scientific paradigms. It takes a pluralistic approach to addressing the pressing problems of sustainability through a systems approach.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Lecture/Online, Online Course Geography Department Course Attributes: Gen Ed 2018, GE18 Syst,Sust&Soc/SocSys&Soct |
| GEOG 298 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
| GEOG 299 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
| GEOG 300 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: GEOGRAPHY |
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Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Geography Department |
| GEOG 303 - WATER RESOURCES |
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An overview of the physical and cultural geography of fresh water. Physical aspects include the hydrologic cycle, regional water budgets, stream flow processes, and groundwater aquifers. Resource management issues include examination of drinking water supplies, irrigation, flood control projects, multiple-use impoundments, floodplain zoning, water pollution, and fresh water fisheries. Case studies will be drawn from the local area and other parts of the world.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department Course Attributes: SS-Sch Core-Sustainability |
| GEOG 304 - FOREST RESOURCES |
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This course provides an introduction to forests and their management on the local, national, and global scales. Field work is designed to familiarize students with basic forest sampling methods. Natural factors examined include basic ecosystem structure, nutrient cycles, succession, climate, fire, soils, water, and wildlife. Cultural factors include a review of management practices in tropical, temperate, and boreal forests, with special focus on deforestation and reforestation. The concepts of multiple-use and sustained-yield are examined from various viewpoints.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Geography Department Course Attributes: SS-Sch Core-Sustainability |
| GEOG 309 - BIOGEOGRAPHY |
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Biogeography is an integrated study of past dispersal and present
distributions of plants and animals. We will approach the subject using
principles from biology, geology, geography, ecology and evolution. Topics
include analysis of temporal and spatial patterns of distribution, vicariance,
dispersal, species interactions, catastrophes, endemism, island biography,
biogeographic modeling, conservation and human impacts on biotic
distributions.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Geography Department |
| GEOG 337 - NATIONAL PARKS AND OUTDOOR RECREATION |
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Through case studies, this course will look at the geography, geology, history, and social impact of outdoor recreation in the United States, with special emphasis on the National Park system. Potential conflicts between management for recreation or preservation, and between financing parkland acquisition vs. development of existing sites, will be examined.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Geography Department |
| GEOG 398 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
| GEOG 399 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
| GEOG 400 - INDEPENDENT STUDY: GEOGRAPHY |
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Limited opportunities to enroll for course work on an Independent Study basis are available. A student interested in this option should obtain an Independent Study Registration Form from the Registrar, have it completed by the instructor and school dean involved, and return it to the Registrar's Office. Consult the current Schedule of Classes for policies concerning Independent Study.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Geography Department |
| GEOG 498 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation describes a transfer course from another institution where an equivalency to a Ramapo College course has not been determined. Upon convener evaluation, this course ID may be changed to an equivalent of a Ramapo College course or may fulfill a requirement.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
| GEOG 499 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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This course designation is used to describe a transfer course from another institution which has been evaluated by the convener. A course with this course number has no equivalent Ramapo course. It may fulfill a requirement or may count as a free elective.
0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Geography Department |
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