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2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin

GHY 1012 - Global Change of the Biosphere (4)

When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Science Inquiry Perspective (Theme: “Exploring Science”; Theme: “Climate Change: Global Patterns and Spatial Dynamics”)
An introduction to the patterns, dynamics, and causes of change in the biosphere. Students will examine the fundamental geographic determinants of biodiversity patterns and the natural and human factors that drive biotic change, including climate change, land cover change, and biological invasions. Students will use the scientific method in hands-on laboratory activities to investigate causal relationships between global change processes and biome shifts, species migration, extinction, and loss of biodiversity. Lecture three hours, laboratory two hours.