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General Studies Requirements
The Earth and Atmospheric Science聽department offers a variety of General Studies courses in Natural and Physical Science, Social and Behavioral Science, and Global Diversity
罢丑别听聽program provides the foundation for the Bachelor鈥檚 degree. Students develop thinking, reasoning, and communication skills while discovering new ideas and expanding their views.聽 The coursework is designed to create the opportunity for聽learning across different disciplines and builds聽experiences for students as they聽grow聽into lifelong learners.
General Studies Courses in EAS
Whether you are looking to fulfill your Social & Behavioral Science, Natural & Physical Science, and/or Global Diversity General Studies requirement and perhaps knock out your Ethnic Studies & Social Justice graduation requirement at the same time, check out the courses we teach in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences department that fulfill a variety of these requirements.
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颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics preassessment placement tests
Description:聽This course introduces students to environmental concepts and issues from an interdisciplinary approach.聽 Students will gain an understanding of the scientific methods and techniques needed to understand the and analyze environmental issues such as ecology, human population growth, soils and agriculture, deforestation, urbanization, air pollution, freshwater resources, ocean pollution, climate change, fossil fuels, alternative energy sources, waste disposal, as well as environmental ethics and policy.聽 Course topics will be complemented with computer exercises.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics preassessment placement tests
Description:聽This course presents the study of the formation, behavior, and interaction of social, political, cultural, and economic regions throughout the world.
General Studies:聽Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SS2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Description:聽This course explores the various elements of the physical environment and interactions between the elements. The course emphasizes the atmosphere (weather and climate), the lithosphere (soils, geology, and landforms), and the hydrosphere (oceans, streams, and groundwater).
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics preassessment placement tests
Description:聽This course provides an introduction to geographic perspectives, concepts, and methods as they apply to the study of human activities. Emphasis is placed on explaining human spatial patterns and their consequences. Topics covered include population, migration, language, religion, folk and economic development, political systems, and resources.
General Studies:聽Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SS2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Description: Students are introduced to the transdisciplinary field of sustainability, addressing critical debates on climate change, environmental degradation, and social inequalities at local and global scales. They begin by examining the historical forces shaping human impact on the global environment, then apply insights from natural and social sciences to understand the environmental consequences of human actions. Throughout the course, students engage with innovative sustainable practices, such as renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, food systems, and urban sustainability, uncovering how communities worldwide advance sustainable and equitable solutions.
University Requirement(s):聽Social and Behavioral Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer: GT-SS2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing placement tests
Description: In this course, water is examined as a natural and societal resource using local, national, and international examples. Landforms and processes related to water such as the hydrologic cycle, watersheds, surface water, and groundwater are surveyed. Students learn about water use in early civilizations, water and culture, water quality and treatment, and water law. The critical issue of water conservation and scarcity is reviewed in the context of the social, legal, political, economic, and physical infrastructure that controls water around the world.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Description:聽Geography of Colorado presents the study of the physical, economic, and cultural features of Colorado. These features include climate, landforms, history, water resources, energy and minerals, mining, soil, natural vegetation, agriculture, population characteristics, the economy, current issues, as well as their interactions, and the overall geographic setting.
General Studies:聽Social and Behavioral Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SS2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
笔谤别谤别辩耻颈蝉颈迟别(蝉):听狈辞苍别
Description:聽Students examine the intersection of environmental issues and social inequality in the United States. They analyze how communities of color and low-income populations experience disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and have limited access to environmental benefits and decision-making processes. Students analyze the geographic distribution and spatial patterns of environmental inequalities, including exposure to pollution, waste, contaminated land, climate change, and access to green space. They investigate the historical roots of environmental racism and assess how place-based policies and planning have shaped environmental outcomes. They use geographic tools such as mapping, spatial analysis, and community-based research to explore how location and place influences both harm and resistance. Case studies focus on grassroots movements and advocacy efforts aimed at achieving environmental justice and healthier communities.
General Studies:聽Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Junior or higher standing
Description:聽Students in this course learn how nature, culture, and socio-political relations have shaped the landscapes of Middle and South America from a geographical perspective. The emphasis of the course is to examine the intersection of environment and society; that is, how power relations are imbricated with people鈥檚 use of environments and access to resources. Specifically, the course focuses on how major regional patterns of political ecologies of development have shaped and continue to define Latin America鈥檚 geography. Topics include development conditions, resource use and environmental politics, extractivism, deforestation and biodiversity conservation, agrarian and environmental struggles, indigeneity politics, and climate change-induced disruptions, and emigration and refugees. Within this perspective, the course provides an understanding of how sociopolitical and economic issues with environmental factors are part of the connections between the United States and Latin America.
General Studies:聽Global Diversity, Social and Behavioral Sciences
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s): GEG 1300 or NAS 1000 or PSC 1010 or junior or higher standing
Description: In this course, we examine Indigenous Peoples鈥� relationships to land and power in North America with a focus on the United States. Colonial legacies of dispossession, genocide, and the reservation system frame how we discuss and interpret physical and symbolic violence against Indigenous Peoples. We begin with a historical geographic exploration of Indigenous land use patterns and how European arrival and invasion radically destabilized Native cultures. U.S. government policies and actions including the establishment of reservations and Tribal governments illustrate how institutions shape contemporary political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental relationships. Contemporary issues such as natural resource extraction, economic development, intersectionality, and cultural resilience influence the experiences of Native Americans on and off reservations.
General Studies: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Ethnic Studies & Social Justice
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听4
Description:聽This course introduces the basic theories, concepts, and assumptions used in geology, utilizing both lecture and laboratory components. It includes earth鈥檚 internal systems from core to crust, as well as the dynamics of the lithosphere with its processes, products, and effects on the environment. Students will learn to identify common rocks and minerals.
Field Trips:聽A field trip is required.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC1
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Description:聽This science course focuses on the State of Colorado to introduce basic concepts, principles, theories, and assumptions in geology. The course covers Colorado鈥檚 major geological provinces and landforms; common minerals, rocks, and fossils; geologic processes; geologic resources and hazards; and important events in Colorado鈥檚 geologic history.
Field Trips:聽One field trip is required.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC2
Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): GEL 1010 or GEG 1100 or permission of instructor
Description:聽This course presents the origin and history of the Earth as well as the evolution of its life, based on the rock and fossil record. The course also reviews the changing geography of the Earth through geologic time, emphasizing the theory of plate tectonics.
Field Trips:聽One field trip is required.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC1
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics pre-assessment placement tests
Description:聽This introductory course studies the world鈥檚 oceans, including geographic, geologic and physical features of the ocean basins and the physical and chemical properties of ocean water. Other major topics include ocean exploration, ocean waves, currents and tides, air-sea interactions, marine ecology, and geologic history. The course emphasizes the use and control of ocean resources and the impact of ocean pollution.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC2
Credits:聽 (4, includes lab)
Prerequisites:聽 None
Description:聽 This course serves as an introduction to technologies used for visualization, measurement, and analysis of geographical features that occur on earth. Students learn basic concepts needed to understand maps, global positioning system (GPS), geographic information science (GIS) and remote sensing of the environment. Topics include the nature and characteristics of geospatial technologies, concepts of spatial data, principles and methods of capturing and representing spatial data, and methods of analysis and interpretation of maps and visualizations. This course addresses basic analysis and spatial problem-solving skills. Intermediate spatial analysis skills are taken up in subsequent GIS courses.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics pre-assessment placement tests
Description:聽This course introduces the fundamental physical processes in the atmosphere–heat and energy, temperature, pressure, wind, clouds, precipitation, and stability. These concepts provide the basis for understanding weather systems, such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes. These processes are also applied to climatic patterns and the impacts of human activity on weather and climate, such as air pollution and climate change. An optional 1-credit lab course, MTR 2020 Weather and Climate Lab for Scientists, is available for students interested in additional experience in the measurement and analysis of atmospheric data, and is required for some science programs.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading, writing, and mathematics preassessment placement tests.
Description:聽This course presents the science behind global climate change from an Earth systems and atmospheric science perspective.聽 These concepts then provide the basis to explore the effect of global warming on regions throughout the world.聽 This leads to the analysis of the observed and predicted impacts of climate change on these regions; the effect of these changes on each region鈥檚 society, culture, and economy; and the efforts of these regions to mitigate or adapt to climate change.聽 The interdependence of all nations will be discussed in regards to fossil fuel-rich regions, regions responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, and regions most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences, Global Diversity
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC2
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽Minimum performance standard scores on reading and writing pre-assessments
Description:聽The course examines the application of fundamental scientific principles in biology and earth systems by examining the basic building blocks of life, evolution of life, the human body, ecosystem structure and development, terrestrial formations and surface processes, atmospheric processes, the solar system, and the universe. This class includes laboratory experiments, which focus on biology and earth science.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC1
颁谤别诲颈迟蝉:听3
Prerequisite(s):聽MTH 2620
Description:聽The course examines the nature of energy and matter, their interactions and changes, and the application of fundamental聽scientific concepts to the study of our natural world. These concepts are explored through hands-on laboratory experiments that focus on basic physics and chemistry principles.
General Studies:聽Natural and Physical Sciences
Guaranteed Transfer:聽GT-SC1
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