Emphasis toward urban planning is incorporated. A basic course on demographic processes and trends. Emphasis is placed on distribution patterns and environmental ramifications. A study of the physical and cultural environment throughout the United States and Pennsylvania particularly as it relates to spatial patterns of population, agriculture, industry, service and transportation patterns. A social science approach to the relationship between humanity and the organic and inorganic environment.
Emphasis is placed on the physical, biological and cultural basis of human adaptation.
The skills used in the worldwide travel industry that are essential for a career as a travel agency owner, manager, or agent, as a tour operator, or as a corporate, convention travel planner or manager. Spatial patterns associated with the consumption of goods and services. Emphasis is placed on the collection and distribution of goods and services as related to aspects of the cultural environment. This course provides an analysis of different methods and techniques of representing geographic data through the use of various manual and computer-based technologies. The focus is upon the processes involved in the collection, compilation, and display of geographic data within a data base.