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Urban Geography Prerequisite: None The history, nature and functions of urban settlements will be considered, with attention to problems of urban areas which are spatial. Introduction also to practical problems using census data, interpretation of aerial photography and map construction. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department GEO 1XX - Geography Elective Geography Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit Hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College
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Geography Of Canada Prequisite: None Studies and evaluates the complex interactions among physical geography and cultural and economic systems that have produced distinctly different regions in Canada. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department
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Regions Of The World Pre-Requisites: None This course introduces students to the geographical concept of regions. Through examination of the physical, historical, and cultural geographies of each region, students will develop understandings of differences and similarities by region. The course focuses on the plethora of important issues confronting different regions of the globe today with an emphasis on the ways in which processes of globalization are both homogenizing and differentiating regions. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department
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Historical Geography Of The United States Prerequisite: LAC student with T1SS course or GER student The influence of geographical factors upon the historical development of our nation and their present impact upon our society. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department Course Attributes: LAC T2IS-Individual&Societies
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Introduction To Women's Studies Prerequistes: None This course, taught from various interdisciplinary perspectives, will address the critical, theoretical and historical construction of women and gender. The course will acquaint students with the key frameworks, approaches, and issues in the field of Women's Studies. Many questions will be considered, such as: How does the concept of gender shape our social experiences and understandings of ourselves? What is "women"? How are "women" produced? What kind of power relations are deployed to construct and maintain gender roles? How do gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexuality intersect? How do gender and sexuality operate in the United States? In a global context? 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department Course Attributes: GER IC1-Cultural Traditions 1, LAC tilt-Literature & Thought GEO 2XX - Geography Elective Geography Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit Hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College
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3.00 Credits
Geography of Food Prerequisite:LAC student with T1A, tilt, T1H or T1SS course or GER student This course is designed to introduce students to the complex geographies of their own diets. The course introduces students to complex geographies of food production and consumption and the changes that processes of gobalization are making at localities across the globe. Those changes, which are strongly influenced by the role of transnational agribusinesses and national and local cultures, affect labor practices, public health, food shopping, cooking, eating and drinking in a myriad of ways. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department Course Attributes: LAC T2CP-Cultural Perspective
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3.00 Credits
Geographies of Tourism Prerequisite:LAC student with T1A, tilt, T1H or T1SS course or GER student This course introduces students to complex geographies of tourism which have become one of the most important sources of revenue for countries across the globe. Students will examine the geography of tourist sites, the movement of tourists and the changes that tourism as a development strategy creates to the physical landscape and to the cultures of tourist sites. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department Course Attributes: LAC T2CP-Cultural Perspective
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3.00 Credits
Global Geopolitical Divisions Prerequisite: None The course examines the global spatial relations that were created from early Western exploration through contemporary globalization. It is designed to develop the analytic skills necessary to investigate the role of Western representational systems and practices (including exploration, colonialism, racism, nationalism, post-colonialism, development, and globalization) in the creating of the 21st-century geopolitical map. After study of the history that has resulted in globalization, students will analyze case studies from a number of locales, including the United States, Antigua, Mexico, and Africa, to examine the effects of this history on localities across the globe. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department
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Economic Geography Prerequisite: None This course introduces students to the changes currently taking place in the global economic map, changes that are having dramatic effects on people living in both developed and developing nations. We will examine the complexities of globalization through the study of technological changes, the role of the state within this new global economy, the activities of transnational corporations and global production networks. We will conclude with an analysis of the increasing economic inequalities and movement of jobs with developed and developing natios and the environmental effects of these changes. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department
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3.00 Credits
Special Topics In Geography Prerequisite: None Special areas of interest in U.S. and world regional geography. Course may be repeated with a change of topic. 3.000 Credit Hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College PoliSci, Philosophy, & Geog Department GEO 3XX - Geography Elective Geography Elective Prerequisite: Transfer Credit Evaluation Only 0.500 TO 6.000 Credit Hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture School of Arts and Sciences College
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