Possible topics include population, migration, language, religion, social customs, political issues, economic development, agriculture, and urban development. Using a variety of perspectives and analyses, students will examine these topics through a geographer's eye, focusing on spatial relationships, the cultural landscape, and regional expressions. A regional approach to the study of human cultures in diverse physical settings. Regional description and analysis are pursued at a variety of spatial scales, from the global to the local. Students will consider the physical, cultural and economic attributes of various traditional regions of the world and the inter-relatedness of human activities.
Emphasis is on the historical development of the regions and on selected contemporary issues.
An introduction to the development of urban systems and to a variety of contemporary urban problems. Emphasis is on the processes characteristic of U.S. and Canadian cities. A survey of the theories and themes of political geography past and present. Topics include environmental political theories, geopolitics, territoriality, nationalism and the state, the Law of the Sea, locational conflict, electoral geography, locality studies, and urban politics. This course covers local political- geographic conflict as well as global issues.