This course will be given in Eastern Europe. Systematic study and analysis of the Middle East and North Africa by the application of geographic concepts and processes shaping the political patterns of the region. Role of culture in shaping places. How cultures are geographically expressed, and how geography is a basic element in the constitution of cultures. Examines global travel and exploration narratives, primarily within the context of European and American imperialism, from the 18th century to the present.
Emphasis is on changing meanings of place and culture.
In most societies women and men inhabit quite different physical and social spaces. This course explores links between gender relations and spatial structures. Surveys recent literature pertaining to contact and conflict among culture groups, American nationalisms, and ecological history as they relate to the history and geography of the American West. The geographical patterns of life on earth and the physical and biological processes that shape them. Laboratory science course.