GEOG 4200/6200
May 11-15, 2009 from 8:00 to 5:00 pm daily! (3 credits)

The course consists of morning lectures, video presentations, and fieldtrips.  The purpose for the fieldtrips are to conduct investigations focusing on major issues and problems within Utah including their historical antecedents and their implications quality of life in Utah, related to both the present and future of Utah.  The agenda will go as such:

1. Monday - Historical and geographic Introduction to the 2nd driest state in the USA with fieldtrip to the sites of Redrock Pass and the Bear River Massacre near Preston, Idaho;

2. Tuesday - Climate, air pollution water and quantity/quality with all day field investigation from the mouth of Logan River up Logan canyon to its final destination at Cutler Marsh west of Logan;

3. Wednesday - Role of physical and cultural landscapes with a traveling fieldtrip to Box Elder, Brigham City and GSL;

4. Thursday - Spatial structure and layout of Rural Mormon Villages with an all day fieldtrip and field investigation traveling up out of Cache Valley and down into Ogden Valley experiencing an exploration of discovery in Huntsville City in Ogden Valley; and finally

5.On Friday, we will finish our week of exploring Utah with an all day fieldtrip to Salt Lake Valley studying the origins of permanent historic Salt Lake Valley by starting at Immigration Canyon and This Is The Place Monument, traveling thru the modernization of SL Valley, ending our week with a tour through two of Utah's planned communities of Day Break in South Jordan and Sun Crest community built on Traverse Ridge in south Salt Lake Valley.

Requirements/Grading:  NO EXAMS, BUT, 1. Daily Attendance; 2. Participation on all trips; 3. Complete Summary/narrative of readings, 4. Complete Field Trip Exercises; 5. Photographs of places investigated; and finally 6. all the above combined into your own personal atlasportfolio!

To register for this course, please visit distance.usu.edu, or call the Registrar's Office:(435)-797-2134.

For any additional questions regarding this class please contact Professor Clifford Craig: cliffbcraig@msn.com