Laura Smith
Assistant Professor

Teaching Assistants:          Office Hours:
Jamie Brooks                               [click here]
Virginia Hungate-Hawk
Clara McConnell
Jon Smucker


This course will explore the ways in which diverse groups of people interact with the natural environment to produce the contemporary cultures and regional differentiation of the U.S. and Canada. Special attention will be given to the development of Native American lands and to the changes in distribution of ethnic groups. Emphasis on patterns of human settlement economic activity, land use, and physical geography. Fundamental understanding of both region and concept. Case studies and short field trips will be used to demonstrate broad themes at a more personal scale. This course fills the domestic diversity requirement. Prerequisite: Geography 111 or permission of the instructor. . Every semester. (4 credits)