Geography at Harper Spring Semester 2000

Spring semester, 2000, Harper will be offering more geography classes than ever before. In the past decade Harper's geography department has grown from one section of one course with 30 students to twelve sections of four different courses taught by seven instructors. Last semester over 150 students learned the importance of place in Harper's geography courses.

Our courses include the popular GEG 101, World Regional Geography, with one section taught completely over the internet and another taught as a telecourse. We also offer GEG 121, Physical Geography, a natural and physical science general education course. In fact, all of Harper's geography courses are "gen ed" courses and transferable to other Illinois colleges and universities through the Illinois Articulation Initiative.

It is often said that we now live in a global economy and that the world is getting smaller. Whether you plan to study business, the social sciences, arts and literature, or the natural sciences, geography courses provide you with important knowledge needed to make you a better businessperson, reader, voter, and citizen.

Highlights of Spring Semester 2000 Geography Courses at Harper:

• No prerequisites
• Twelve sections of four different courses taught by eight instructors
• All courses qualify for general education under Illinois' new Illinois Articulation Initiative (most as a social science, one as a physical and natural science)
• GEG 121, Physical Geography, is a Physical and Natural Science general education laboratory science course
• One internet course: GEG 101-059 [http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101i/home]
• One telecourse: GEG 101-050
• One 12-week course taught at Elk Grove High School: GEG 101-006
• Economic Geography (GEG 210) which hasn't been taught for several years
• Most classes are taught in Harper's new Multimedia Geography classroom

For more information:

call :925-6352,
e-mail: mhealy@harper.cc.il.us
see: http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/geography2000