World Regional Geography

Catalog description

World Regional Geography examines a world that is undergoing political, economic, social, and environmental transformations at many different spatial scales. Viewing content through the lens of the Six Essential Elements of Geography (National Geographic Society) and other geographic concepts such as scale, place, and human-environment interaction, this course examines international linkages, such as economic globalization, which help to forge a world community. The course also examines more regional and localized manifestations that contradict our understanding of a global community and examines a variety of regions' physical systems, cultures, economic systems, environmental challenges, and political realities. Larger concepts such as North and South, developed and developing, and environmental degradation and climate change, take on new meaning when they are explored at a regional level.