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GEOG 124
(GS;IL)
Elements of Cultural Geography (3) Locational analysis of changes in non-Western cultures. Problems of plural societies, economic development, population growth, and settlement.
GEOG 124
GEOG 124 The Elements of Cultural Geography (3)
(GS;IL)
(BA) This course meets the Bachelor of Arts degree requirements.
Elements of Cultural Geography focuses on the interaction between people and environment at a global scale and in a representative range of regions. It begins with a long-term, global perspective on changes in people and environment, particularly as they relate to changes in population and technology. It then examines the interaction between people and environment in the Amazon, the Basin of Mexico, Southern California, and the Great Plains. While taking such a case-study approach in the second part of the course, it relates changes in those places back to the long-term, global model and to other regions thus exploring how global interconnections have changed over time and the implications of those changes for the present and the future.
This course is not required for majors, has no prerequisites, and is not a prerequisite for any other course. It provides a foundation for understanding human-environment interactions at a global scale, including the regional interactions involved, and thus provides a context for more focused regional courses in the upper-division curriculum.
This course consists of approximately thirty meetings plus a final exam. The thirty meetings include twenty-four lectures, four videos, and two midterms. The exams combine multiple choice, matching, true/false, fill in the blank, and short written answers.
Enrollment averages 185. There are no lab oratory or discussion sections.
Note : Class size, frequency of offering, and evaluation methods will vary by location and instructor. For these details check the specific course syllabus.