2016-17 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Geography Department
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Wendy Miller, chair
Old Main, Room 138
607-753-4107
Fax: 607-753-4114
Email: geography.department@cortland.edu
cortland.edu/geography
School of Arts and Sciences
Faculty
Scott Anderson, Richard Hunter, Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo, Wendy Miller
Adjunct Faculty
For a listing of adjunct faculty see the Faculty and Administration section.
Degrees and Minors
Bachelor of Arts in Geography
Bachelor of Arts in Adolescence Education: Social Studies and Geography (7-12)
Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Systems
Minor in Geographic Information Systems
Minor in Geography
Minor in Tourism Development
Concentrations
Offered in Geography
Tourism Development
Offered in Geographic Information Systems
Advanced Geospatial Applications
Computer Techniques
Demographics and Business Geographics
Environmental Science
Description
Through the geography department, students may choose a program leading to the award of a bachelor of arts degree in geography that includes a 12 credit hour foreign language requirement. The bachelor of science program in geographic information systems incorporates specialization in computer techniques, environmental science, or demographics and business geographics (see GIS program below).
Special Features
- High-tech training in a friendly, supportive environment
- ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) authorized learning center with 25 GIS workstations – learn advanced applications including network analysis and 3D modeling applications
- Global Positioning System (GPS) – master field survey techniques using handheld units.
- Internships – numerous opportunities with local, state and federal agencies and study abroad options at various locations
- Student-faculty research opportunities
Requirements
- Degree Requirements listed in this catalog apply to the majors offered by this department.
- Liberal Arts Requirements: B.A. – 90 credit hours B.S. – 60 credit hours
Major
Dual Major
Minor
GRY 110 - Physical Geography Patterns of physical elements of landscape and atmosphere, their interrelations, how they differ from place to place. Fulfills: LASR. Notes: GRY 110, 120 or 125 meet the prerequisite of "introductory geography."(3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 120 - Cultural Geography Comparative study of cultures in their geographic setting and their response to modern world interdependence and problems of food, population, development. Fulfills: GE 6; LASR. Notes: GRY 110, 120 or 125 meet the prerequisite of "introductory geography."(3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code A = offered every semester
GRY 125 - Human Geography and Global Development A spatial study of race, class and gender relations in the context of contrasting cultures, and the role the relations play in global development — social, political and economic. Fulfills: GE 3 and GE 6; LASR. Notes: GRY 110, 120 or 125 meet the prerequisite of "introductory geography."(3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code A = offered every semester
GRY 129 - Special Topics in Geography Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 215 - Geography of Travel and Tourism The spatial analysis of international travel and tourism. The use of such geographical techniques as mapping and quantitative analysis to describe and predict the origins and destinations of the world's tourists. The study of physical and cultural landscapes as major tourism resources in countries around the world. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 221 - Social Geography Geographical analysis of social groups, institutions in United States. Emphasis upon spatial qualities of cultural and social assimilation process experienced by racial and ethnic minorities. Fulfills: GE 11; LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 229 - Special Topics in Geography Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 240 - Economic Geography Spatial analysis of production, transportation, market destination of commodities. Introduction to the use of computer-assisted location-analysis techniques. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code F = offered in fall
GRY 301 - Science, Human Affairs and the Environment Examination of origins, evolution and significance of Greenhouse Theory of climate change. Investigation of other theories advanced to account for climate shifts. Evaluation of evidence suggesting a climatic warming of unprecedented magnitude is under way and that anthropogenic increase in greenhouse gasses is responsible. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring
GRY 315 - Ecotourism A global and local analysis of the physical environment as a tourism development resource. An examination of such natural systems as the rain forest, ocean and desert as tourism resources and the environmental impact of tourism on the viability of these niches. Regional and local studies of the environment as a basis for tourism development will be drawn from Amazonia, East Africa, Central America, the Caribbean and North America. Also listed as REC 315. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring; C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 324 - Introduction to Cartography and Geographic Information Systems Principles and methods of spatial data collection, processing, analysis and display. Introduction to cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Prerequisite: CAP 100. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code A = offered every semester
GRY 326 - Computer Graphics in GIS Introduction to computer graphics through hands-on lab exercises. Development and use of original commercial programming to produce two- and three-dimensional images and analysis. Emphasis upon skills used in cartography, business and the sciences. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 327 - Service Learning: Computer Mapping Introduction to desktop computer mapping. Practical experience in using computer mapping techniques to create thematic maps that graphically display data for service-learning purposes. Database organization, manipulation and analysis for efficient production of publication-quality maps for communicating spatial information. Prerequisite: GRY 324. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three lectures and/or demonstrations, one two-hour laboratory. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring
GRY 328 - Geographic Information Systems Desktop computer-based Geographic Information System (GIS) applications. Practical experience using GIS software to learn geographic data management, thematic mapping, basic map and database querying, as well as map creation and report writing. Prerequisite: GRY 324. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three lectures and/or demonstrations, one two-hour lab. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code F = offered in fall
GRY 329 - Special Topics in Geography Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 330 - Advanced GIS Techniques Planning, execution and delivery of a GIS-based project that demonstrates mastery of tools of GIS in a substantive application tailored to a field of interest. Prerequisite: GRY 328. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring
GRY 331 - Global Position System Technology Introduction to GPS technology for the collection and integration of spatial and nonspatial data within a geographic information system (GIS) framework. Includes computer-based field activities. Prerequisite: GRY 324. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 334 - Historical Geographic Information Systems Introduction to the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to facilitate empirical research on the history of land use, the development of spatial economies, and the visualization of past landscapes and landscape change through lecture and lab exercises. Prerequisites: GRY 324 and GRY 327. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 337 - Programming in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Provides an application of computer programming principles to Geographic Information System (GIS) environments. Once basic programming principles are understood, common GIS related programming tools and languages such as Model Builder and Python will be explored through computer based lab exercises. Prerequisites: GRY 324 and GRY 327. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 370 - Will the World Provide? A Research Experience for Students This course provides a science, technology, and society (STS) research experience for students. Through class, group and individual projects, students develop and pursue a research question, investigate resources and reach a set of comprehensive conclusions on one of the following global resource topics: air, water, minerals, agriculture, energy, forestry, fisheries and wildlife. Fulfills: GE 3 and GE 12. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code F = offered in fall; C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 400 - Geographical Analysis Application of quantitative techniques to solution of geographical problems. Included are the study of point pattern analysis, geographical sampling, a real association and ecological analysis. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three lectures, one two-hour laboratory. Fulfills GE 1; LASR. (4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code F = offered in fall
GRY 415 - Tourism Planning and Development The spatial analysis of tourism as a component of economic development. A regional comparison of the marketing of tourism resources in the developed and less developed countries of the world. Examination of the resources necessary for the development of tourism and an analysis of the economic and environmental impact on a location as a result of marketing those resources. Also listed as REC 415. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code F = offered in fall; C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 425 - Geography in the Classroom Application of geography's principles, themes and learning outcomes to the classroom setting. Study and application of national and New York State learning standards in geography to the K-12 classroom. Illustration of successful teaching models and evaluation instruments in geography and global studies. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring; C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 429 - Special Topics in Geography Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 440 - Seminar in Geography Approaches, techniques of geographic analysis. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring
GRY 450 - Urban Geography Factors in establishment, growth of urban places; analysis of function, internal patterns, hinterland interrelationships; urban land use, problems of clustered settlements. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 460 - Geography and Film Select problems in cultural geography as exhibited through film. May be repeated with different subtitle: Social Geography of England, Comparative Cultural Geographies — India and Brazil, Race Issues in Southern Africa. Also listed as AAS 460. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 470 - Resource Geography Analysis of relationship of resources (human and natural) to man, human evaluations of geographic space and environmental quality, management of environmental quality in context of a contemporary world. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 480 - United States Topical, regional analysis focusing on interrelationships of cultural, economic and physical patterns and problems. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 481 - Geography of New York State Human, natural resources. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 482 - The Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean Regional description and analysis of the human and physical landscape of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Geographical analysis of the region's politics, culture and economy with a particular focus on the role of tourism in the development of its economy. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 484 - Geography of Europe Regional study: major problems of physical, cultural landscape of Europe. Industry, commerce, agriculture. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 485 - Africa, South of the Sahara Cultural, political factors and relationship to past and present population patterns. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 486 - Geography of South and East Asia Topical, regional analysis of cultural, physical environments — Japan to India. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code S = offered in spring; C = offered at least once every two years
GRY 495 - Independent Study in Geography Independent research in selected geographic problems. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (3 or 4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 499 - Internship in Applied Geography Internship with a local government agency or business. Supervised application of statistical, cartographic and locational skills. Prerequisites: GRY 400, 440; consent of department. S, U grades are assigned. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 520 - Maps in the Classroom Classroom-laboratory approach to map use for students and teachers. Formal study of map elements. Map reading, interpretation. Classroom map exercises, their design, use. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 524 - GIS in the K-12 Classroom Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology as a medium for delivering instruction and a tool for enhancing the analysis of geographic information in the K-12 classroom. Use of ArcView or ArcMap software. Creation of learning modules that address New York State learning standards. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 529 - Special Topics in Geography Selected topics. May be taken more than once as subtitle changes. Prerequisites: Designated by department as appropriate for content and academic level of credit. (1-4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
GRY 545 - Teaching Geography Through Film Investigates the use of film as a powerful medium for teaching K-12 students about the world. Explores how the strong visual imagery and effective power of film can support other modes of instruction. Film resources will include feature films, documentaries, short fiction films and music videos. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code M = offered in Summer
GRY 580 - Historical Geography of North America This course takes an interdisciplinary approach in examining 500 years of geographical history on the North American continent.
Using secondary and primary source materials, it looks at the evolving human and cultural geography of North America from the first few insecure European "points of attachment," to permanent colonies, expanding empires, transcontinental nations, and finally a macroculture of global impact in the 21st century.
It examines the changing economic and technological conditions, the clash of cultures — European, Native American and African — and the historical and geographical processes of environmental and landscape change that accompanied these transformations. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 581 - Teaching the Geography of New York State Topical, regional analysis focusing on interrelationships of cultural, economic and physical patterns and processes of New York state. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 585 - Teaching the Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa Topical, regional analysis focusing on interrelationships of cultural, economic and physical patterns and processes of Sub-Saharan Africa. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code B = offered at least once per year
GRY 595 - Independent Study in Geography Independent research in selected geographic problems. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. (3 or 4 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally
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