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2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog 
    
2024-2025 WWCC College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CAP 058 - CAP Geography and World Affairs


Credits: 1-2.5
LEC hours per week: 2.5
This course studies world geography and contemporary national and international issues. Credit can be earned for only one of these courses: CAP 058 or HSC 035 .
Course Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Produce graphic representations to explain geographic problems.
  • Interpret maps and other graphic representations to understand geographic problems.
  • Evaluate the applications of geographic tools and supporting technologies.
  • Describe physical processes that shape places.
  • Analyze how cultures influence a geographic region.
  • Identify global impacts of human changes to the physical environment.
  • Analyze population issues and policies for addressing such issues.
  • Use technology skills to find and use information for academic purposes, including word processing and learning management systems.
Course Topics:
  1. Location - Geo-positioning
  2. Place - Conditions and features of a place (human and physical)
  3. Interaction - Connections between the natural environment and cultures
  4. Movement - How places are linked and connected by the flow of ideas, people, commodities, resources, and travel
  5. Region - How places are grouped.
  6. Physical geography - Climates, plants, soils, landforms, and bodies of water
  7. Human geography - Communities, people, and landscapes
  8. Cartography
  9. Meteorology
  10. Hydrology
Course Attribute(s): None