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2026-2027 IHCC Catalog 
  
2026-2027 IHCC Catalog

GEOG 1115 - Human Geography



3 Credits
Studies basic elements, processes, and distributions associated with people’s principal ways of life, their interrelationship with the natural environment, and socio-cultural diversity including: population, race, language, religion, political, and economic systems.

Major Content Areas
Population: 20%

Urban Geography: 20%

Economic Geography: 20%

Political geography: 20%

Cultural geography: 20%

Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate how geography and geographic analysis relates to the social and behavioral sciences

Investigate the concepts of culture, cultural interaction and change

Analyze the global and regional distributions of culture

Examine the historical and geographical processes as they relate to the distribution and character of human culture and cultural interaction

Articulate the issues and problems facing the human community today

Analyze how geographic methods are employed in understanding the human condition

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals
05 - Hist/Soc/Behav Sci

08 - Global Perspective