The following provides examples of existing OER that can be used for the indicated courses. Please find all potential OER identified for the discipline at Open Educational Resources and Geography and the available OER for all disciplines at OER by Discipline. Please note that the structure presented here aligns with the Geography TMC
This page is currently in draft form. If you are using – or are aware of – OER for any courses listed here for which no resources are indicated, please let us know.
Required Core Courses (6-7 units):
Introduction to Physical Geography (C-ID GEOG 110)
- Physical Geography (Patrich, 2024) – College of the Canyons (CC BY)
- The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography (Ritter, 2021) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Supplemental Materials: Physical Geography (Lenkeit-Meezan) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC)
- Physical Geography and Natural Disasters (Dastrup, 2021) – Open Geography Education (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd edition (2018)
- Physical Geography – Version 1 (Patrich and Radtke, 2020)
or Introduction to Physical Geography, with Lab (C-ID GEOG 115)
or Introduction to Physical Geography (C-ID GEOG 110) and Physical Geography, Laboratory (C-ID GEOG 111)
- Physical Geography (Patrich, 2024) – College of the Canyons (CC BY)
- Physical Geography Lab Manual (Ray et al., 2020) (CC BY-NC 4.0) – LibreTexts
- Physical Geography Lab Manual (Pesses, Welsh, and Adams, 2017) (CC BY 4.0)
- The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography (Ritter, 2021) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Supplemental Materials: Physical Geography (Lenkeit-Meezan) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC)
- Physical Geography and Natural Disasters (Dastrup, 2021) – Open Geography Education (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd edition (2018)
- Physical Geography – Version 1 (Patrich and Radtke, 2020)
Introduction to Human Geography (C-ID GEOG 120)
- Introduction to Human Geography (Dastrup) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach (Graves, 2020) (Free but not open)
or World Regional Geography (C-ID GEOG 125)
- OERI Contemporary World Geographies (Gregorio, Naraghi, Ray, Scott, Sellers, and Wallace) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Introduction to World Regional Geography (Dastrup, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization (Berglee, 2012) – Saylor Academy (CC BY-NC-SA)
List A – Select 6-7 units from the following (units):
Physical Geography, Laboratory (if GEOG 115 or 111 not taken above) (C-ID GEOG 111)
- Physical Geography Lab Manual (Ray et al., 2020) (CC BY-NC 4.0) – LibreTexts
- Physical Geography Lab Manual (Pesses, Welsh, and Adams, 2017) (CC BY 4.0)
California Geography (C-ID GEOG 140)
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Techniques, with Lab (C-ID GEOG 155)
- Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (Dastrup) (CC BY)
- Nature of Geographic Information Systems (DiBiase, Pennsylvania State University, 2014)
- Essentials of Geographic Information Systems (Campbell and Shin, 2011) (CC BY-NC-SA)
Map Interpretation and Analysis (C-ID GEOG 150)
Introduction to Weather and Climate (C-ID GEOG 130)
- Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions (Veerabhadran, Aines and Auffhammer, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Introduction to Climate Science. 1st Edition (Schmittner, 2018) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action (Granshaw, 2020) (CC BY-NC)
Regional Field Studies (C-ID GEOG 160)
List B – Select 6 units from the following:
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (C-ID ANTH 120)
- Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Edition (American Anthropological Association, 2020) (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
- Cultural Anthropology – LibreTexts (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology (New Prairie Press, 2018) (CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- Introduction to Anthropology (Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis, & Marjorie M. Snipes, 2022, OpenStax) (CC BY)
- Introduction to Anthropology: Holistic and Applied Research on Being Human (Palmiotto A, Homsey-Messer L, Ford B, Poole A, Adams A, Allard F, Chadwick W, 2022) (CC BY-SA)
Physical Geology (C-ID GEOL 100)
- An Introduction to Geology (Johnson, Affolter, Inkenbrandt, and Mosher, 2019)
- Physical Geology – 2e (Earle, 2019) (CC BY)
- The Dynamic Earth (Kious and Tilling, 2022) – LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
- Introduction to Physical Geology (Staff, Miracosta College)
- Fundamentals of Geology (Schulte) (CC BY 4.0)
- Physical Geology (Panchuk, 2021) – First University of Saskatchewan Edition (CC BY)
Or any courses not selected above (from List A), any CSU transferable geography courses and/or other courses (in or outside the discipline) that are articulated as lower division major preparation for the geography major at a CSU.
This page last updated on April 18, 2023.