GEOG& 102: World Regional Geography

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Class Program

Geography

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091581

Meets Degree Requirements For

Diversity,

Social Science

Description

Examines the diversity of the world's human and physical landscapes using a regional approach. Geographic concepts and the dynamics of development are discussed within the context of 10 major geographic realms. Regional disparities and interdependencies provide an important focus for understanding the global complexity of social systems.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Use maps and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

Understand the general physiography, historical development and social geography including divisions based on race, ethnicity, class, gender, nationality, religion, and socioeconomic status in each of the ten major realms on earth.

Identify spatial distributions of regional phenomena and explain geographic processes such as migration, colonialism, religious persecution, genocide, cultural imperialism, disease vectors, deforestation, desertification, and natural resource use underlying such patterns.

Use skills to critically examine development theory approaches and to analyze regional inequalities based on systemic discrimination and oppression that has been directed toward people of diverse races, backgrounds, and orientations.

Be able to demonstrate an improved level of geographic literacy, map identification and Internet capability.

Understand the importance of history and domestic or international forces in making 'a place' what it is today.

Integrate and synthesize text materials, web-based curriculum, video documentaries and lecture presentations to produce written and oral assignments.

Understand and appreciate the uniqueness of place in the face of globalizing realities.

Core Topics

The regional framework including Europe, Russia & CIS, North America, South America, North Africa/SW Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific.
Core-periphery regional relationships, power differentials, and development theories.
Landscape approaches to physical systems in interaction with human systems.
Urbanization in post-industrial societies.
Legacies of colonization and changing land tenure patterns.
Cultural diversity and ethnic fragmentation.
Race and racism in the context of colonialism, urbanization, refugees, and apartheid.
Political and economic supranationalism.
Patterns of health, nutrition and their environmental connections.
Demographic pressures on regional disparities.
Rural/Urban contrasts in developing realms.
Borderlands, boundaries, and territorial claims.