May be repeated when the content is changed. Resources, land use, and strategic significance of the Indian Peninsula, China, and Japan. Natural setting, resources, human use, and current problems of the North African countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, and of the lands of Southwest Asia west of Pakistan. Geographic analysis of the American South, with emphasis on the dynamic character of Southern development. Designed to provide an understanding of the present-day South and its potentialities.
Emphasis is placed on American urban areas and their evolution and functional areas.
The patterns of transportation and the geographic factors that have established them. The relationship of transportation media and patterns to settlement is emphasized. May be taken for one to 6 hours of credit. Geography of the United States in past times with special attention to the westward movement. Factors of settlement and emphasis upon changing environmental interrelationships.