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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Theory and analysis of the location of economic activities; distribution and hierarchy of central places; land use; delineation, structure and growth of economic regions. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: May be used toward the 33 s.h. in economics required of economics majors.
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Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Study of the physical and human geographic roots of Latin American societies, from Mexico to the southern cone of South America. Explores the forces that shaped this unique region and considers its role in the contemporary world. Impact of historical geography since pre-Columbian period on modern Latin America. Economic and political geography in relation to other world regions. Changing human landscapes and social transformations currently affecting many of the area's inhabitants.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically An exploration of the physical and human forces that have shaped the landscape of the Caribbean Basin. Attention focuses on a variety of social, population, development, and geopolitical issues of importance to the region and on the role played by the Caribbean in today's world. This course has received provisional approval.
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Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Course introduces students to the physical and human landscapes of South America. After beginning with the development of several themes that unite the continent and Latin America more generally, the course shifts to a country-by-country approach to explore the sub-regions, cultures, economic geography, and social issues affecting each of South America's 13 countries.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a year Study of Africa's diverse human and physical landscapes, focusing on the interaction between the two. Analysis of the cultural, environmental, economic, social, political and population geography of the continent. Both North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, the continent's two major regions, are featured prominently and examples are drawn from many of Africa's more than 50 individual nation-states
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically This course introduces students to the physical and human landscapes of a fascinating continent-country and its neighboring island countries in the South Pacific. Topics include the physical geography, settlement geography, economic geography, and environmental geography of the region. On selected occasions during the summer session, the course will be offered in Australia, with two weeks of classes at Hofstra followed by field work in the Australian Outback, the Queensland rainforest, the Great Barrier Reef, and Sydney, Australia's major city. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: There is a program fee for this course when offered in Australia.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Human geography focuses on how society drives environmental/ geographical issues. This course is an in-depth investigation of the key sub-fields of human geography, such as: Population Geography (demography and migration), Political Geography (nation states), Economic Geography (the structure and location of economic activities), Cultural Geography (the world's major cultural regions) and Urban and Regional Geography (the structure of cities and their hinterlands). Each of these subdisciplines are examined to show how they enhance our spatial understanding of the world. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: This course is a requirement for geography majors and complements GEOG 3.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a year An introduction to a variety of geographic systems around the world and to methods used by geographers to study them. Course provides students with the conceptual basis for understanding and interpreting a wide variety of world events and the relationships that exist among world regions. Focus is on topics rather than on regions. Students examine different aspects of geography, ranging from the study of physical landscape to many of the human geographic sub-disciplines such as political geography and population. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: (Formerly Geographic Systems: An Introduction to Topical Geography.)
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Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Cultural geography is one of the main subdisciplines of human geography. At the core of human geography are the concepts of place and space. In this course we will analyze the relationship between culture and the production of the geographic landscape. We also investigate how migration has led to cultural diffusion, and how culture influences perceptions of the natural environment and the usage of natural resources. Lastly, we analyze the cultural norms that underpin the allocation of public and private space, and how these norms in turn influence our sense of space and place.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically Contemporary economic processes, such as the globalization of trade and the emergence of economic blocs, have been accompanied by significant growth in the movements of people, freight and information. Transport geography is concerned about these movements along with the infrastructures, institu- tions and corporations supporting them. It tries to link spatial constraints and attributes with the origin, the destination, the extent, and the nature and purpose of movements. Transportation, therefore, has varied and complex impacts over populations, economies and geography.
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