GEOG 111: Human Geography of Global Issues

This course is an introduction to the global perspectives, basic concepts and fundamental questions of geography. It focuses on the ways through which all places on Earth are interconnected and how the human use of Earth's surface varies over space. Major topics covered will be the human perception of earth space and the ways people give order to space; the growth and distribution of human population; the localization and spatial characteristics of patterns of settlement and land use; geopolitics and colonialism; environmental geography; the geography of economic development and modernization; principles of the analysis of spatial diffusion; spatial aspects of retail marketing; the geographic analysis of issues in industrialized societies focusing on gender issues, racism, poverty, sport, and religion.

LECTURES
Geography of Modern Agriculture
Geography of Migration
Historical Geography of Migration
Immigration to US
Immigration to MN
Straits Settlements to World Cities
Cultural Geography
Wilderness and the Creation of Place
The Minnesota Iron Ranges: an Industrial Frontier
China: Geography of Economic Change
Metropolitan Evolution

David Lanegran, Professor

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