# Geography (GEOG) courses

Allan Hancock College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 9 courses

Source: https://hancockcollege.curriqunet.com/catalog/iq/28544/28863/31218

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027.

### GEOG 101 — Physical Geography

- **Units:** 3
- **Advisory:** ENGL C1000
- **C-ID:** GEOG 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/summer-2026/geog.md); Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Winter 2027, 2 sections (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/winter-2027/geog.md); Spring 2027, 5 sections (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md)
- Course Offered: Spring, Fall
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

An introduction to the earth's physical geography, addressing the origins, patterns and interconnections of weather/climate, water, landforms, living systems and human culture.

### GEOG 101L — Physical Geography Laboratory

- **Units:** 1
- **Prerequisite:** GEOG 101
- **C-ID:** GEOG 111
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md)
- Course Offered: Fall
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

This course is design to provide supplemental exercises in topics covered in Physical Geography lecture. Lab experience will include map analysis and interpretation, weather prognostication, landform processes and evolution, tectonics, biogeography, and habitat analysis.

### GEOG 102 — Human Geography

- **Units:** 3
- **C-ID:** GEOG 120
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/summer-2026/geog.md); Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Winter 2027, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/winter-2027/geog.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md)
- Course Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

A historical perspective is used to explore our human role in shaping the earth's cultural landscapes. Globalization and cultural diversity are course themes. Topics include population and migration; the geography of language, religion, and social customs; economic forms; settlements; and resource problems.

### GEOG 103 — World Regional Geography

- **Units:** 3
- **C-ID:** GEOG 125
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md)
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

A study of the world's major geographic regions. The course focuses on the increasing globalization of the world and a movement towards greater emphasis on cultural diversity.

### GEOG 105 — Geography of California

- **Units:** 3
- **C-ID:** GEOG 140
- **Transfers to:** CSU (with credit limitation), UC (with credit limitation)
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md)
- Transfer: Limited transfer to CSU & UC
- Course Offered: Spring
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

A survey of the geography of California, including the physical environment, weather and climate, population and migration, industry and agriculture, and major cultural patterns. Themes will include: cultural diversity, economic and political trends, resource issues, and the human-environment interaction.

### GEOG 110 — Introduction To Weather and Climate

- **Units:** 3
- **Advisory:** GEOG 101
- **C-ID:** GEOG 130
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/allan-hancock-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md)
- Course Offered: As Needed
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

An introduction to the physical processes underlying atmospheric and weather phenomena, including global climate change and the impacts of various weather and climate phenomena on society. Topics include atmospheric structure and composition, solar radiation and energy balances, temperature, seasonal changes, atmospheric moisture, clouds and fog, precipitation, air pressure, winds, air masses and fronts, cyclones, dynamics of the atmosphere and ocean, weather forecasting, climate and climate change.

### GEOG 137 — Critical Geographies of Race/Ethnicity in the United States

- **Units:** 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027 schedules
- Course Offered: Fall
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

This course offers a critical analysis of how the social and spatial construction of racial/ethnic categories, specifically African American, Asian American, Latino and Latina American, and Native American, shape places, societies, and everyday lived-experiences in the United States. This course will apply interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and key geographic concepts to analyze how these processes are produced through historic and contemporary geographies of power, privilege, and oppression; agency, liberation, resistance, and justice; and exclusion, containment, access, and mobility. This course will provide students with the lifelong knowledge and skills to navigate social, psychological, physiological, and spatial relations of racial/ethnic inequality and justice. The course is not open to students who received credit or are currently enrolled in ES 137.

### GEOG 155 — Introduction to GIS with Lab

- **Units:** 2
- **C-ID:** GEOG 155
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027 schedules
- Course Offered: Spring, Fall
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

Study of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) science and its applications to spatial data management. Identification and acquisition of GIS data. Assessment of vector and raster systems, scale, resolution, map projection, coordinate systems, georeferencing and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Spatial analysis and modeling with GIS.

### GEOG 189 — Independent Projects in Geography

- **Units:** 1-3
- **C-ID:** N/A
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026, Fall 2026, Winter 2027, Spring 2027 schedules
- Grading Method: Letter Grade or Pass/No Pass

Courses for students capable of independent work who demonstrate the need or desire for additional study beyond the regular curriculum. Enrollment allows students to pursue activities such as directed field experience, research, or development of skills and competencies under faculty advisement and supervision. Independent projects may be earned in most disciplines. Students wishing to enroll in Independent Projects should contact the appropriate instructor identified in the class schedule. If the project proposed is acceptable to that instructor, a contract will be developed. All contracts for these classes must be completed and submitted to the Records Office no later than the end of the second week of the semester. Students may enroll for any combination (unit value) of Independent Projects 189 and/or 389 for a total of four semesters in a specific discipline. Units are awarded depending upon satisfactory performance and the amount of time committed by the student to the course. Allowable units vary according to discipline, and are based on the following formula: 1 unit - 48 hours per semester 2 units - 96 hours per semester 3 units - 144 hours per semester