ENVSCI 109 - Cultural Geography

3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
Given the extent of today’s era of globalization, it is more important than ever to understand human differences and similarities around the world. Within the broad discipline of Geography, cultural geographers focus on the complex inter-related causes and effects that produce diverse, as well as similar, cultures. Students will become familiar with the geographical perspective, basic concepts, vocabulary, and tools & techniques that form the foundations of cultural geography. Students will learn to use new knowledge and skills to examine why human cultures vary around the world in response to their physical and social environments. Through the selected topics in the syllabus, this course will guide students to study different dimensions of human characteristics, cultures, behaviors, and activities in a variety of global locations and to better understand how cultural differences develop.

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