Protected Landscapes

Catalog description

Using the human-environment tradition of geographic scholarship, this course will study perceptions of global environments and the processed that have resulted in preservation, reservation or other exclusion of particular landscapes. This analysis will use historical, political, legal and other relevant facets of cultures to determine why certain spaces have been deemed and designated as extraordinary. Finally, it will analyze protected areas regionally, stressing classification and scale, evaluating consequences to the environments and cultures. It is recommended that students enroll in the one credit GEOG 391 Geography Field Experience course the same semester they take GEOG 390.