This course serves as an introduction to geographic perspectives on human activity. Human interactions and their respective settings as studied in term of spatial, human-environment, and regional traditions. The course serves as an ideal introduction to a wide range of upper division courses in human geography offered by this department.
Explanation is focused upon cultural economics, social, political and environmental factors.
Then Europe is examined in a regional way-examining each nation culture and economy individually. Finally, questions of industrial and regional development are discussed. The spatial aspect of social and physical environments is stressed. Historical evolution of urban patterns and structures in Latin American, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Australasia. Examination of settlement, boundary issues, ethnic subregions, population change, industrial development, and urban growth.