Physical Geography and the Core Curriculum: One Department's Experience

Abstract

The core curriculum being re‐adopted by more and more colleges and universities has strong impact on physical geography. A case study at the University of Alabama provides insights into what these impacts may mean to enrollments and programs and how the impacts may be anticipated and turned into positive influences.

Classroom Simulation of Small-Scale Solutional Landforms

“…Physical geography, classified as a natural science in some college curricula, has come under scrutiny as an appropriate laboratory science because courses frequently lack experimentation using physical equipment (Lineback 1986). Classroom experiments that can illustrate terrainforming processes and replicate landforms quickly are ideal for instruction and provide hands-on experience for students.…”