Course Units: This course will consist of eight units of study
Unit 1: Geography: Its Nature and Perspective
Unit 2: Population - Patterns of Migration
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
Unit 4: Political Organization of Space
Unit 5: Economic Geography - Agriculture and Rural Land Use
Unit 6: Economic Geography - Industrialization and Economic Development
Unit 7: Cities and Urban Land Use
Unit 8: Contemporary Issues
Unit II - Population and Migration
II - Population and Migration Rubenstein, Chapter 2
A. Geographical analysis of population 1. Density, distribution, and scale 2. Implications of various densities and distributions 3. Composition: age, sex, income, education, and ethnicity 4. Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health B. Population growth and decline over time and space Rubenstein, Chapter 2 1. Historical trends and projections for the future 2. Theories of population growth and decline, including the Demographic Transition Model 3. Regional variations of demographic transition 4. Effects of national population policies: promoting population growth in some countries or reducing fertility rates in others 5. Environmental impacts of population change on water use, food supplies, biodiversity, the atmosphere, and climate 6. Population and natural hazards: impacts on policy, economy, and society C. Migration Rubenstein, Chapter 3 1. Types of migration: transnational, internal, chain, step, seasonal agriculture (e.g., transhumance), and rural to urban 2. Major historical migrations 3. Push and pull factors, and migration in relation to employment and quality of life D. Geography and History
|
PowerPoint
|
UNIT I - GEOGRAPHY: ITS NATURE AND PERSPECTIVES
I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives Rubenstein, Chapter 1
A. Geography as a field of inquiry B. Major geographical concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, nature and society, regionalization, globalization, and gender issues C. Key geographical skills 1. How to use and think about maps and geospatial data 2. How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places 3. How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes 4. How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process 5. How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places D. Use of geospatial technologies, such as GIS, remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), and online maps E. Sources of geographical information and ideas: the field, census data, online data, aerial photography, and satellite imagery F. Identification of major world regions |
PowerPoint Presentations
|