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. Examines major forces involved in the complex interaction between transnational corporations and states within the context of a changing technological environment. A study of the spatial components of current social problems, such as poverty, race relations, environmental deterioration and pollution, and crime. A geographical study of the spatial structure and function of urban settlements.
Emphasis is on the regional relations of cities and central place theory.
A study of environmental parameters, cultural preferences, technological developments, and spatial economic infrastructure which result in world patterns of food consumption, production, and distribution. The Cultural Ecology of Agriculture and Disease Examines the role of the interactions of cultures, environments, and human diseases in the quest for sustainable agriculture by examining the cultural ecology of agriculture 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. This course emphasizes the watershed as an integrated system focusing on hydrology, but including interactions with climatic, ecological, geomorphic and water quality issues and processes. Ecological Plant Geography Description of the major vegetation types of the world including their distribution, structure, and dynamics.