260 Chabot College 2024-2026 CREDIT COURSE LISTING, GEO Career Opportunities GIS is used to acquire, represent, organize, analyze and visualize information in the public and private sectors. With this expanded application comes a broad range of GIS career areas, including: 1. Business (Business Analytics, Technology Support, Economic Development) 2. Land Administration (Public Works, Surveying, Urban/ Rural Planning) 3. Health and Human Services (Hospitals/Health Systems, Managed Care, Public health) 4. Intelligence (Remote Sensing, Surveillance, Environmental Monitoring, Military Operations, Disaster Relief and Recovery, Communications) 5. Natural Resources (Agriculture, Archaeology, Climate Change, Forestry, Heritage Sites, Marine and Coastal, Water Resources) 6. Public Safety (Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Wildfire Management) 7. Transportation and Infrastructure (Highways, Logistics, Ports and Maritime, Public Transportation, Railways) Program Learning Outcomes 1. Identify significant spatial relationships and patterns in society including interactions between humans and their natural environment. 2. Demonstrate competency in techniques of spatial overlay of themes, design and production of map layouts, graphical presentation of spatially distributed data, and analysis of geocoded database information. Core Courses GEO 1 Introduction to Physical Geography 3 GEO 1L Introduction to Physical Geography Laboratory 1 GEO 20 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems 3 GEO 21 Spatial Analysis with GIS 3 GEO 22 Advanced GIS Applications 3 The above listing is a suggested sequence only. Some courses may have prerequisites. Students may take courses in any sequence except where a prerequisite applies. Total 13 GEOGRAPHY (GEO) COURSES 1 Introduction to Physical Geography 3 Units Earth’s natural environments, with emphasis on spatial characteristics, change over time, interactions between environmental components, and human-environment interactions. Physical processes, techniques, and tools by which Earth’s climates, soils, vegetation, water resources, and land forms are linked into integrated global patterns. Effect of natural environments on human activities and how humans modify environments. Field trips may be included. Lecture: 54 hours 1L Introduction to Physical Geography Laboratory 1 Unit Application of the concepts, techniques, tools, and materials of physical geography. Practical exercises, experiments, observations, data analyses, and computer applications/simulations which augment understanding of geographic processes, interrelationships, spatial patterns and distributions. Use of maps, remotely-sensed imagery, and geographic information systems. Includes locational reference systems, time-space relationships, weather, climate, soils, vegetation, and landforms. Field trips/field projects may be included. Laboratory: 54 hours Prerequisite: GEO 1 may be taken concurrently 2 Cultural Geography 3 Units Spatial analysis of human populations, their cultural traits, and activities. Emphasis on how diverse peoples, through their interactions and through their perceptions and use of the physical environment, create distinctive cultural landscapes. Social, political, and economic elements of geography which contribute to the evolution of these global and regional cultural patterns. Field trips may be included. Lecture: 54 hours 3 Economic Geography 3 Units An introduction to the world’s major economic systems; their spatial distribution and characteristics; their relative contributions to regional development and global change; and related movements of people, goods, and ideas. Techniques and tools of spatial analysis applied to human-environment interactions, with emphasis on ecological problems associated with specific economic activities. Field trips may be included. Lecture: 54 hours 5 World Regional Geography 3 Units Regions of the world and the way humans live within those regions. Includes physical and cultural characteristics of world regions, how they are similar and how they are different, economic patterns, agriculture, industrial development and population dynamics. Emphasis on contemporary major issues and their geographic impact. Lecture: 54 hours 8 Introduction to Weather and Climate 3 Units Introduction to weather and climate and their impact on and modification by human activities. Emphasis on weather elements, events, and processes; climate controls; and the techniques, tools, and instruments of atmospheric science. Includes atmospheric optics, weather prediction, severe storms, air pollution, global/regional warming/cooling, ozone depletion, acid rain, El Niño, deforestation, desertification, and other topics related to everyday experience and global climate change. Field trips and observational activities may be included. Lecture: 54 hours
