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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
For the first time in human history, more than half of the world¿s population lives in urban areas, and rural-to-urban migration is changing the face of countries around the world. This course examines the increasing importance of cities; the impact of urban areas on non-urban; the structures of urban areas and how they differ among the world¿s regions. It also considers how residence in urban areas is conditioned by race, class, and gender in small as well as large cities, and explores urban cultural landscapes. The course reviews the origin and growth of cities, and focuses on recent changes in urban areas.
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3.00 Credits
The course is concerned with the characteristics of rural residence, land-use and settlement patterns. Focus is on rural areas in the United States, with comparison of rural issues in other parts of the world as appropriate. Issues examined include the changing nature of agricultural production in the region and concurrent economic and social change; human-environment interactions; the impact of rural-to-urban migration on sending areas; the social structures of importance to rural residents, including issues related to ethnic change, gender roles, and class status.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the important role of gender in structuring culture, and how gender roles and ideologies vary around the world. Gender and place are studied as key components of culture; the influence of place on culturally constructed differences such as gender, class and ethnicity is examined at scales from personal space and roles within the family and larger society, to the manners in which international leaders make decisions about distribution and control of resources that shape men¿s and women¿s lives in different regions and countries.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the concept of development means for various countries of the world. The term ¿international development¿ is used to mean economic growth that provides better living circumstances for the people whose economy is growing. The focus of this course is on the uneven impacts of economic development and on the importance of other sorts of globalizing trends that affect people¿s lives in addition to economics. Clearly, not everyone benefits equally from a growing economy. Even within local areas, some people gain from economic progress while others continue to fall behind. The course will be framed by overarching geographic concepts such as gender and ethnicity, as well as geopolitics, war and civil unrest, cultural and economic globalization, uneven access to the benefits of growth and change, and the detriments and the advantages that may result from attempts at development.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the world¿s natural resources, with a focus on the United States in global context. Philosophies of resource protection, conservation and preservation are considered in the context of increasing global demands for energy, water, food, and other critical resources. The global economic, cultural and physical impacts of resource use, depletion, and conservation are analyzed from a geographic perspective, as are the global impacts of pollution, waste production and disposal, cultural-economies of resource conservation are emphasized in the context of human-environment interactions, as important themes of geographic study.
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