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How and why are geographical patterns of employment, production and consumption unstable in the contemporary world? What are the consequences of NAFTA, an expanded European Community, and post-colonial migration flows? How is global restructuring culturally reworked locally and nationally?

• California Geography - principal natural, economic, political and cultural characteristics of the various sub-regions, special attention to principles governing location and distribution of these phenomena
• Cultural Geography - investigates human landscape and its relationship to physical environment, principles governing location and distribution of various cultural phenomena such as language, religion, agriculture, industry & urbanization
• Physical Geography - area distribution of various features of the physical environment as they relate to man's occupance of earth's surface, explain these relationships through fields of geology, meteorology, climatology, cartography, hydrology, geomorphology, and pedology

overview of interactive processes resulting in the mosaic of environments on the earth & controls on distribution of ecosystems, Environmental change explored on variety of time and spatial scales so as to enhance capability to distinguished between natural and human-induced climatic, biotic and physical changes: final exam review, Websites of Interest

physical processes that shape the earth & tools used to study these processes

N. Africa & SW Asia, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Russia, Middle America, East Asia, N & S America, Southeast Asia, Australia/New Zealand, The Pacific Realm

• Introduction to Meteorology - dynamics of the earth's atmosphere: energy exchange mechanisms, energy balance, condensation and precipitation processes, the dynamics of pressure and wind systems, distributions of weather disturbances
• Environmental Data Analysis - Statistical principles and practice of analyzing geographical data: bivariate and multiple regression and other multivariate techniques, Emphasis on exploratory data analysis and graphical techniques
• Geography of California - landscapes of California and the physical, cultural, and biotic processes which have produced them

image galleries, readings, Links to Weather Info Sites

explores different aspects of natural environment, including atmosphere & hydrosphere (weather & climate, oceans), lithosphere (landforms, earth processes) & biosphere (plants & animals, primarily), emphasizes relationships: study guides, web resources