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  • 3.00 Credits

    2-2-3 This course teaches students to create, maintain, modify and enact pre-fire plans regarding a variety of building occupancies and facilities. Using CAD technology, students learn to create graphic depictions of buildings and fire access routes, plot locations of fire standpipes and hydrants, charge emergency egress routes throughout building interiors, and plan for the deployment of firefighting equipment. Prerequisite: FSCI 111 or permission of Department Head. Prerequisite:    FSCI 111 or permission of Department Head.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3-0-3 (Eff. FL21) This course introduces first-year students to ideas and strategies required for college-level academic inquiry and college success, including critical thinking, communication, cultural competence, problem-solving, data interpretation, and institutional knowledge. Students develop college preparedness skills such as time management, note taking, study methods, test taking, information literacy, and an understanding of academic integrity. Students apply critical thinking and communication skills to areas such as cultural diversity, media literacy and financial literacy and gain an understanding of campus and community resources. Students create an appropriate academic plan, financial plan, and career/transfer plan in the course of the semester. Students in degree programs requiring FYE 101 must enrollin the course within the first 12 credits.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to the basic concepts of physical geography that will involve the examination of the physical systems and processes which create many types of landforms and shape the earth's environment. In addition to introducing students to the concepts relevant to the physical world patterns, such as those relating to the make-up of the earth, weather- ing and mass movement, ocean currents and wind interaction, glaciation and periglaciation, this course also helps them understand the creation of the physical world as a system- atic rather than a random formation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3-0-3 (Eff. FL21) Human Geography examines the relationships among people, culture, and space. It is the study of spatial variations among cultural groups and the spatial functioning of societies at local, regional and global scales both within the United States and throughout the world. This course focuses on describing, analyzing and comparing the ways in which human attributes, cultural characteristics and structures, including population, demographics, migration, language, religion, popular and folk cultures, race, ethnicity, gender roles, political and economic systems, levels of development, resource management, land use and urbanization, remain constant or vary around the world. Students examine the relationships among cultural and human patterns, economic activities, and the physical environment, analyze and interpret information from primary sources, and develop skills in writing appropriate for geography and the social sciences.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3-0-3 Examines cities and their surrounding regions from the perspective of the geographer, a social scientist searching for order in the way people organize and use the space they inhabit through an analysis of physical, economic and social patterns within the urban areas of the United States and the world.
  • 3.00 Credits

    3-0-3 Examination of the numerous physical processes which have shaped the world's landscapes, as well as a study of various historical, political and economic forces which underlie the world's complex social landscapes. The regions covered include North America, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, Asia and the Pacific. Prerequisite: GEOG 101 or GEOG 103. Prerequisite:    GEOG 101 or GEOG 103.
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