World Regional Geography: People, Places & Globalization

Catalog description

This course serves as an introduction to the study of regional geography at the global scale. Students will become familiar with and understand the use of maps/geo-technologies to explain geographic phenomena and patterns as they relate to world regions and their interrelationships, apply geographic concepts to the study of regions or a specific region, compare and contrast human and physical patterns and their variations over space, develop an appreciation of the complexities of regional and global environmental and socio-economic problems, understand globalization and place local issues in their global and historical context, and to understand human-environment interactions in various regions around the world. This course has no textbook costs.