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Courses in Environmental Sustainability
Rural Geography
This course focused on themes in rural geography, such as land use issues, small settlements and society, agriculture, tourism and other industries, rural administration, service provision, and the effects of socio-economic processes including urbanization and globalization. I completed two projects in this class, both focused on the importance of sustainability in rural tourism.
Renewable Energies
An exploration of renewable energy options, development of tools and analytical frameworks for understanding sustainability, and an examination of the relationship between these issues and community capacity-building to promote resilience and innovation. This class is solely focused in validating and implementing renewable energies in the regions where they are most feasible.
Environment, Resources & Sustainability
Students discuss concepts of environment and resource, and the role of physical geography in understanding the interaction of humans and the environment. This course also provides an introduction to the management of environment-resource systems. Much of this course amplifies the need for implementing sustainable practices.
Geography of Consumption
This course examines consumption as a cultural and economic practice, how it has formed landscapes, and its impact on our growing understanding of ecosystems and social systems. It examines spatial patterns of purchasing and consuming goods and services, changing ideas about the landscape as a good and a service, and the ethical and practical questions raised by the social and environmental impact of increased consumption.
Weather, Climate & Global Environmental Change
A science laboratory course providing an introduction to the basic principles and processes of meteorology and climatology, the study of weather and climate, respectively. Topics include the composition and structure of the atmosphere, solar radiation and the seasons, energy balances and temperature, atmospheric pressure and wind, atmospheric moisture and cloud development, precipitation, atmospheric circulation, air masses and fronts, thunderstorms and tornadoes, and cyclonic storms. In addition, the course will cover climate classification systems as well as examine the potential causes of past and predicted future global climates.
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