GEO 4: CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY4 Units, Four hours lecture
Advisories: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5; Mathematics 200
Catalog description: Examining the location of people and activities throughout the world and understanding the reasons for their distribution. Topics covered include population and migration, human impact on landscape, the geography of language, religion and ethnicity, economic activities, political organization and settlement patterns including the urban environment.
Transfer status: This course fulfils De Anza G.E. requirements and is UC and CSU transferable.
De Anza G.E.:Area D, Sub Area 2, History and Society
CSU Breadth: Area D, Sub Area 5, Social, Political and Economic Institutions and Behavior, Historical Background
IGETC (UC/CSU):Area 4, Sub Area E, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Course description: This course is intended as an introduction to cultural and human geography, exploring the changing relationships between people, culture, economy and the environment. Cultural geography deals with the ways in which people organize and arrange their activities on the earth's surface. Students will examine global issues such as world population, migration, refugee movements, uneven development and poverty, environmental degradation, urbanization, industrialization and the growth of nationalist movements and analyze the processes that create these problems. Lecture topics will be illustrated by case studies and supplemented by slide presentations and videos.
Course objectives:
The student will:
A. Compare and contrast the two main branches of geography (physical and cultural/human). Summarize the relationship of cultural/human geography to the other social sciences.
B. Describe the major geographic aspects of population growth and migration, both internal and international.
C. Examine the human relationship to, and use of, the earth’s environment from an historical perspective.
D. Examine variations in culture (with special focus on language, religion and ethnicity) and explore how these can contribute to political conflict.
E. Identify forms of economic activity and relate them to processes of economic development.
F. Compare and contrast urbanization in developed and developing countries.
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