Semester Hours:3Once a year
An introduction to a variety of geographic systems around the world and to methods used by geographers to study them. Course provides students with the conceptual basis for understanding and interpreting a wide variety of world events and the relationships that exist among world regions. Focus is on topics rather than on regions. Students examine different aspects of geography, ranging from the study of physical landscape to many of the human geographic sub-disciplines such as political geography and population.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: (Formerly Geographic Systems: An Introduction to Topical Geography.)