GEOG 1255 — - Human Geography
Prerequisite: Placement determined by a college ready assessment score in reading Corequisite: none This course will provide an overview of Human Geography and how human interactions shape material and cultural landscapes. It broadly examines the great diversity of human organization and experience in different countries through a variety of perspectives. Essential to this examination is a comparative review of the contemporary geographies of race, language, Course Listings & Descriptions political ideologies (including religion), public policy, ecology, economic activity, natural resources, settlements, folklore, and demographics. What distinguishes human geography from other related disciplines, such as development, economics, politics, and sociology, are the application of a set of core geographical concepts to the phenomena under investigation, including space, place, scale, landscape, mobility, and nature. These concepts foreground the notion that the world operates spatially and temporally, and that social relations do not operate independently of place and environment, but are thoroughly grounded in and through them. Transfer Curriculum Goal(s): 5, 7 German (GERM)