GEOG& 200: Introduction to Human Geography

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Class Program

Geography

Credits

Lecture Hours 5 Clinical Hours None

Weekly Contact Hours

Meets Degree Requirements For

Social Science

Description

From personal to global levels, this course uses a systems approach to examine interaction of social, economic, and ecological factors in natural resources management. Identify and explore the consequences of diverse natural resource philosophies and paradigms, and develop skills to direct, mitigate or change human impacts on natural systems. Also offered as NATR 235.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Explain the key concepts and vocabulary used in social science approaches to natural resource management.

Program Learning Outcomes

Explain the interconnections of natural and human systems (ecological, social, economic, and cultural) at local, national, and global scales of analysis.

Identify and categorize specific short-term and long-term human impacts on ecosystems and develop detailed strategies to direct, mitigate, or change these impacts.

Program Learning Outcomes

Propose sustainable alternatives to conventional development strategies.
Explain the interconnections of natural and human systems (ecological, social, economic, and cultural) at local, national, and global scales of analysis.

Apply understanding of larger scale (global and regional) natural resource management context to the analysis of smaller scale (regional and local) natural resource management.

Program Learning Outcomes

Explain the interconnections of natural and human systems (ecological, social, economic, and cultural) at local, national, and global scales of analysis.
Use maps and other geographic tools to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.

Conduct and document a comprehensive stakeholder analysis for a defined Natural Resource issue. Then, develop and propose a solution, demonstrating how it addresses the identified stakeholder interests and constraints.

Program Learning Outcomes

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

Understand and describe patterns of natural resource distribution and systems of control over those resources.

Program Learning Outcomes

Use critical analysis to examine geographic inequalities based on systemic discrimination and oppression that has been directed toward people of diverse races, backgrounds, and orientations.
Demonstrate an understanding of regional classifications, including physical and cultural characteristics, as means to interpret Earth's complexity.

Use maps and geographic tools to analyze natural resources and the management of those resources from a spatial perspective.

Program Learning Outcomes

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

Core Topics

Role of social science in natural resource management
Natural resource values and paradigms
Human ecology
Biodiversity
Sustainability (social, economic, ecological)
Ecological ethics and externalization
Natural resources laws and regulations
Citizen engagement/public participation
Collaboration (inter-/intra-agency, w/public)
Global perspective and international comparison
Climate change and climate solutions