This enables students to understand intricate relationships that exist within all ecosystems, to see that when people alter environment other changes follow and to know some outcomes are immediately obvious while others are subtle, long-term, difficult to predict and frequently irreversible. Students should develop knowledge of sensitivity, a sense of responsibility for their own actions, a commitment to quality conservation. Students also become aware there may be solutions to issues though co-operative responsible management practices. They need to be concerned with the future, present, and past. Urban geography is the study of urban places and their interaction with their surrounding environments.
Urban form is traced through time and the political and human problems facing cities are studied.
A major portion of the course is devoted to a study of land uses within cities, with a view to understanding the physical and economic forces that control those interactions. Field work involving the collection of data is an important part of the course. This course is open to students in Grade 11 or higher. This course draws on geographic concepts, skills, methods, and technologies to analyse significant issues facing Canadians as citizens of an interdependent world. Students will examine the challenges of creating a sustainable and equitable future through the study of a range of topics, including economic interdependence, geopolitical conflict, regional disparities in the ability to meet basic human needs, and protection of the planet's life-support systems.