People, Place, Envir.

Catalog description

(PS, G) This course explores the relationship between humans and the natural environment from a social science perspective. The primary goal of the course is to engage students in using human geography and environmental studies approaches to examine economic, cultural, environmental, political, and urban issues around the world. Students will gain an understanding of human-environment processes and patterns as well as how they change over space and time. By examining how places around the world are different and similar, globalized yet regionally distinct, we will gain a deeper understanding of the interrelated nature of the world in which we live. Major topics include global environmental change, urbanization, environmental conservation and resource management, migration, and current geopolitics and their historical contexts. ESGE 100 is recommended.