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3.00 Credits
This course will provide a sound understanding of the changing geography of Asia and the region's position within the global economy. Emphasis will be placed on a geographical analysis of the region's physical features, natural resources, cultural patterns, population, politics, and economic development potential and problems.
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3.00 Credits
This course will pursue an understanding of those elements that characterize this region and define its position in the world, as well as those features that are distinct and mark different peoples and places. It will examine local, national and international issues relating to identity and status, history, economy, environment and other topics in an attempt to create a portrait of life in many areas of the region. Geography and Urban Studies 185
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3.00 Credits
The course presents an analysis of Europe's physical features, natural resources, cultural patterns, environmental and political problems, and economic potential. Emphasis is placed on Europe's cultural, economic and political spatial patterns relating to the economic problems of European nations. The course offers the opportunity to focus on the common characteristics and shared problems of the members of the European Union so as to enable participants to better examine the prospects and problems of EU, in the context of geographic relationships underlying land utilization, boundary disputes, economic organization, and the dominant international relations of Europe and the global community.
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3.00 Credits
A systematic study of the physical, cultural, economic, and political geography of Africa. Topics covered include the physical environment and the resource base, demographic characteristics and population factors of growth; culture, the impress of colonialism, agricultural and resource development; cash crops and foreign trade, impact of aid and structural adjustment policies, industrialization and external economic ties, internal civil conflicts, regional contradictions, and outside involvement.
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3.00 Credits
The course emphasizes Latin America's unique physical features, natural resources, demographic characteristics, and cultural patterns; the impact of European colonial expansion upon native societies, land tenure and modernization of the rural sector, cash crops and development, mining and industrialization, the growth of cities, foreign debt, and structural adjustments and development. The course also examines relationship patterns between Latin America and the United States.
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3.00 Credits
This course will pursue an understanding of those elements that characterize this dynamic region. Emphasis will be placed on the changing concept of Russian and the former Soviet bloc in the global economy, recent reforms and trends in economic and political spheres, ethnic conflicts, relations between republics and urban problems.
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3.00 Credits
United States and Canada have a common heritage and geographical contiguity, which has produced commonality of culture and mutual interdependence. Yet there are clear-cut distinctions between the two countries. This course provides a basis for understanding these two countries by studying their geographical similarities and differences. Emphasis is given to the identification and interpretation of spatial patterns and processes associated with resources, economic structure, settlement patterns, population, urbanization, and ethnicity.
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3.00 Credits
Geographical analysis of the physical features, natural resources, population characteristics, cultural patterns, and economic potential of New Jersey. The course also covers immigration and its impact on social, economic and political life; environmental degradation and contamination and its effects on health and well being; urbanization and the poverty and pollution associated to it; the relations between New York City and New Jersey; and New Jersey's past and current contributions to the economic growth and development of the country.
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3.00 Credits
The first part of this course explores key concepts in the field of urban geography. The second part provides students with an understanding of important trends in the evolution and development of North American cities and the nature of cities, including their internal structure, arrangement of land uses, the social and economic characteristics of urban populations, economic activities in cities, housing, suburbanization, gentrification and neighborhood change, and urban management and governance. Cities within the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area are used to illustrate specific urban concepts, experiences, issues, and problems.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces issues raised by large scale/global hunger. The course focuses on worldwide and local perspectives regarding the nature, causes and consequences of hunger. Emphasis is placed on factors of accessibility to food; regional and cross-cultural aspects of food consumption patterns, production parameters, food distribution patterns; local, regional and global food marketing, and the use of food as a weapon.
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