A systematic study of the approaches, key concepts, and methods of human geography. Emphasis is given to the cultural landscape and location analysis within a thematic rather than a regional framework. A study of spatial components of current social problems such as poverty, race relations, environmental deterioration and pollution, and crime. Gender, race, and class are examined in terms of the spatial patterns of everyday life, regional patterns, and global patterns. A geographical study of the spatial structure and function or urban settlements.
Emphasis is on the regional relations of cities and central place theory.
Students study the environmental parameters, cultural preferences, technological developments, and spatial economic infrastructure which result in world patterns of food consumption, production, and distribution. Examines the role of interactions of cultures, environments, and human diseases in the quest for sustainable agriculture by examining the cultural ecology of systems and their human diseases. An analysis of selected biological and mineral resources of the world with particular emphasis on their distribution, utilization, management policies, and on their social and economic implications. Prerequisites, Geography 10 or Geology 11. Focuses on the processes of soil formation, erosion, and landform evolution, with an emphasis on the interaction of geomorphic processes with surface hydrology and ecosystems.