GEOG 1000 - Introduction to Geography: The Earth as the Home for Humans
4 Credits
Explores human interactions with environments over time and space through topics directed toward an understanding of the ways in which humans live, and the means by which they interpret and manipulate the physical earth. Topics will include the character of the earth’s physical landscapes, distribution of energy in the form of weather and climatic regions, biological communities, human interactions with these physical systems, and how human diversity in language, religion, economics, and politics, has differentiated and influenced human interaction on the planet.
Major Content Areas
Geography as a discipline and the use of maps to depict spatial differentiation: 10% The Cultural Tradition: Population, Cultural Geography, Spatial Behavior, Political Geography: 25% The Earth Science Tradition: Topography, soils and vegetation, Biogeography, the earth’s energy balance, Climate, and the human impact upon the environment: 25% The Area Analysis Tradition: Regional Concepts and Patterns: 15% The Location Tradition: Economic Geography, Geography of Resources, Urban Geography: 25%
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate an understanding of the discipline of geography, the question central to its perspective, and the topics it studies Analyze the geographic diversity of cultural institutions and the processes by which humans interpret and relate to each other in time and space Explain how the physical and biological worlds are structured and how humans relate to physical environments within which they live and interact Articulate and demonstrate geographic inquiry Demonstrate how the earth is geographically differentiated in respect to regional distinctions and the analysis of physical and cultural relationships
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
10 - People/Environment 08 - Global Perspective
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