SJS 175 - Intro to Human Geography

Institution:

Point Park University

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Description:

This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of human geography. The course thus examines the ways in which social life intersects with, produces, and is produced by various places, spaces, territories, locations, borders, landscapes, and scales. Students explore a broad range of geographies from across the world, paying considerable attention to the ways in which social inequalities work through and are reinforced by different geographic patterns. The course also serves to introduce students to some of the key sub-disciplines of human geography, including urban geography, economic geography, and political geography. Course Objectives (1) Articulate, in speech and writing, an understanding of human geography's principal concepts. (2) Demonstrate, in essay exams and periodic writing assignments, an ability to recognize geographic patterns in a number of different real-world contexts. (3) Apply an understanding of geography's principal concepts to real places around the world. (4) Investigate, via an end-of-the-semester research project, the ways in which various social inequalities are expressed in different geographic patterns.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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