# Geography (GEOG) courses Golden West College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 7 courses Source: https://catalog.cccd.edu/golden-west/course-descriptions/credit-courses/geog/ "Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027. ### GEOG G100 — World Regional Geography - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Advisory:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E or concurrent enrollment. - **C-ID:** GEOG 125 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md) - Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass This course provides an overview of the world using geographic concepts to identify the diversity and similarity of physical and human landscapes in a variety of world regions. Major world regions will be identified and explored through historic and contemporary dynamics of globalization, the physical environment and resources, human migration and population, social and economic development, culture, and geopolitics. This course will increase students’ global awareness to become more informed citizens who can critically evaluate world conditions. ### GEOG G120 — Critical Geographies of Race/Ethnicity in the United States - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Advisory:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E. - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md) - Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass This course is identical to ETHS G120. This course offers a critical analysis of how the social and spatial construction of racial/ethnic categories, specifically Black, Asian, Latinx, 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. Enrollment Limitation: ETHS G120; students who complete GEOG G120 may not enroll in or receive credit for ETHS G120. ### GEOG G130 — Introduction to Weather and Climate - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** GEOG 130 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Spring 2027, 2 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md) - Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass This course is an introduction to weather and climate patterns through an examination of the scientific method and Earth's atmosphere and processes including atmospheric composition and structure, solar radiation, energy balances, temperature, seasonality, atmospheric moisture, clouds and fog, precipitation, air pressure and circulation, air masses and fronts, cyclones, weather forecasting, climate, and climate change. ### GEOG G180 — Physical Geography - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **C-ID:** GEOG 110 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Spring 2027, 7 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md) - Grading Mode: Standard Letter This course is an introduction to the spatial study of the dynamic physical elements and processes of Earth including weather, climate, oceans, water-cycle, earthquakes, volcanoes, rocks, mountains, caves, forests, deserts, vegetation, soils, ecosystems, and biomes. An emphasis on the interrelationship between these and other features of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere. Introduction to the scientific method, and geographic tools such as maps and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). ### GEOG G180L — Physical Geography Laboratory - **Units:** 1 - **Hours:** 54 lab hours - **Prerequisite:** GEOG G180 or concurrent enrollment. - **C-ID:** GEOG 111 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/fall-2026/geog.md); Spring 2027, 4 sections (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md) - Grading Mode: Standard Letter Formerly: GEOG G181. This course is designed to provide supplemental, practical laboratory exercises that correlate to topics covered in Physical Geography G180. Lab experience will include map analysis and interpretation, weather prognostication, landform processes and evolution, tectonics, biogeography, and habitat analysis. ### GEOG G185 — Human Geography - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 54 lecture hours - **Advisory:** ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E. - **C-ID:** GEOG 120 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** Spring 2027, 1 section (/c/golden-west-college/schedule/spring-2027/geog.md) - Grading Mode: Standard Letter, Pass/No Pass This course provides an interdisciplinary survey of major social science themes. Students will explore a range of topics at multiple geographic scales from the local to the global. Topics include culture, diversity, language, religion, and social structures; migration and population; international tourism, trade, labor and development; political and economic geography; urbanization and rural landscapes; food, agriculture and natural resources; and human-environmental interactions. ### GEOG G190 — Digital Mapping: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems - **Units:** 3 - **Hours:** 45 lecture hours; 27 lab hours - **Advisory:** CS G130. - **C-ID:** GEOG 155 - **Transfers to:** CSU, UC - **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules - Grading Mode: Standard Letter This course introduces students to the technology, capabilities, and functionality of Geographic Information Systems (GIS); as well as, the concepts, principles, and methods of geospatial analysis. Students will create interactive maps and visualizations and apply principles of spatial inquiry to analyze the distributions and relationships of physical, social, cultural, and economic features. The course utilizes computer technology, GIS software, aerial photography, satellite imagery, topographic maps, and global positioning systems (GPS). Students learn proper techniques for sourcing, manipulating, managing, and mapping social and scientific data. Course activities may be applied to a variety of fields including Geography, Anthropology, Political Science, Economics, Business, Marketing, Geology, Environmental Science, Biology, Public Health, Criminal Justice, and Architecture.