GEOG& 207: Geography of The Economy

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Class Program

Geography

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091582

Meets Degree Requirements For

Diversity,

Social Science

Description

Survey of the field of economic geography, including globalization, economic development, location analysis and economic clusters, rural and urban land use, and spatial aspects of retail. Economic debates and alternative theories examined in historical and current context. Global, regional and local scales employed to explore how production, distribution and consumption of goods and services are geographically organized.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Understand geographic scales of analysis and their intersections.

Understand basic economic measures, models, and theories of spatial arrangement and interaction.

Explain economic processes using country or place-specific examples.

Examine critically development theory approaches to analyze regional inequalities.

Summarize geographic approaches towards economic analysis of industrial or retail location, urban locational patterns and processes of trade.

Engage a global perspective on issues of resource distribution, population, labor migration, economic development, commodity production, consumption and waste.

Apply theories of political economy to pressing environmental problems and social justice issues.

Explain how regional variations and disparities are tied to past and present economic conditions.

Understand how racism, xenophobia, and patriarchy shape divisions of labor and economic opportunity in the US and abroad.

Core Topics

What is Economic Geography: past and present
Basic economic assumptions, processes, and exceptions
Regional Economies: classifications and growth rates
Economic Development approaches
Uneven Geographies of Globalization
Spaces of Production and Consumption
World Trade, Transportation and Communications: patterns and prospects
Industrial and Retail Location analysis
Global Food Systems and Economic Security Issues
Geographies of the New Service Economy
Sustainable Development and Ecological Economics
Gendered and Ethnic Economies