Dec 11, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

GEOG 280. Human Geography: The Cultural Landscape


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 002047 Grading Basis GRD

This course introduces the geographical sub-discipline of human geography. Framed by the spatial dimensions of social science and drawing from critical, qualitative, and quantitative approaches, the course analyzes a range of global and local processes within human geography. Topics include, but are not limited to, culture, migration, resource use, geopolitics, religious diversity, colonization, demographics, urbanization, sustainability, agricultural systems and globalization. Students will utilize key theoretical and conceptual tools to explore these subject areas through the main sub-fields of economic, cultural and political geography, as well as in an introduction to human-environment interactions.