GEOG1023 — Human Geography
GEOG 1023 - Human Geography GEOG 1023 - Human Geography Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: This course focuses on the characteristics of human populations and societies, with a particular focus on the processes underlying and explaining the geographic patterns of human activities across diverse world regions. Course topics include human population dynamics (population growth and distribution, migrations, settlement patterns, urbanization), cultural geography (world languages and religions, folk and popular cultures), political and economic geography (political organization of the world, territorial issues, the global economy, and comparing more and less developed world regions), and land use (agriculture and industry). MnTC Goals 5 History/Social/Behavioral Science, 8 Global Perspective employ methods used by geographers and other social scientists to describe, analyze, and compare basic demographic, cultural, political, economic, and settlement characteristics of peoples around the world. use social science vocabulary, concepts, and theories to provide explanations for patterns in the ways of life by human groups. illustrate the inter-connections and relationships across space and boundaries by individuals and societies in our human world which is both very diverse and rapidly globalizing. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) 05. 01. Employ the methods and data that historians
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052
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