| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Geography (X) |
This course introduces fundamentals of world human geography, including maps and map reading, landforms and climate, elementary spatial analysis, population and migration, and patterns of resource distribution and use. Particular emphasis is given to the dynamics of human environmental interaction, cultural diversity, and concepts of regionalism.
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This course introduces students to the key concepts and principles of human geography. The course is designed to show how world geographic conditions such as climate, landform, natural resources, soil, space and ecology have influenced human culture and civilization over time.
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Introduces key geographical concepts, both cultural and physical. Considers how such geographic factors as location, landforms, climate, soil, and natural resources have shaped cultures and civilizations, and the role played by people in gradually altering their environments. Audiovisual materials such as maps, photographs, slides, and films are used extensively.
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Survey of the cultural landscape of the Americas meeting place for the cultures of five continents. Representative examples of Amerindian, African, Asian and European cultural patterns in the context of their geographical settings.
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The contemporary world features astonishing cultural diversity, easily accessed through communication networks and international trade. This course will examine classical and contemporary theories of cultural development and its stages, as well as problems posed by global diversity: inequality, imperalism, miscommunicaton, and intercultural strife.
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This course emphasizes the study of cities and societies from a variety of perspectives, and examines a broad range of theoretical and practical public policy issues, including race and gender, immigration patterns, economic growth and decay, and population distribution.
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This course is a quantitative and qualitative examination of historic and contemporary international migration patterns. Emphasis is on spatial demographic impacts of immigration policy in the United States with special attention to major urban centers. A comparative analysis of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States will also be offered.
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A study of world physical/environmental and cultural patterns and the factors producing them. Maps and atlases are used to recognize and analyze these patterns.
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A study of the basic features of the each of the world's regions.
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Analysis of location factors in business decision-making, including geographic techniques to locate and define potential markets and marketing campaigns. Evaluation of the market characteristics of neighborhoods, communities, and populations.
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The geography of continents of major areas outside Anglo-American and Western Europe. Special emphasis on the basic principles of economic and cultural geography of regionalization as illustrated in the area under consideration.
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Study of the approach, key concepts, and methods of human geography. Emphasis will be given to the cultural landscape and location analysis within a systematic framework. The contribution of these concepts to an understanding of societal problems.
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Introduction to medical geography via a study of the way in which environments affect health and disease. Effect of the distribution of health facilities on community health and access to health services.
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The impact of human activities on natural resources and environmental quality. Topics will include soil, forests, water, wildlife, outdoor recreation, and energy resources.
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The contribution of geographical concepts and methods to an understanding of contemporary and future urban problems. Emphasis placed on the ghetto and the urbanized region in postindustrial societies.
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Relationships between economic and geographical systems--with emphasis on developmental processes at the regional, national, and international levels.
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Introduction to geographical informational systems: question formulation, data collection and organization, basic mathematical and statistical methods of analysis, and presentation of analytic results.
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An introduction to the spatial aspects of economic development. The course provides a basis for understanding the cultural, physical, and economic differences between the world's developed and underdeveloped regions.
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An introduction to the way a geographer looks at the New York metropolitan region and its problems. Topics include the physical environment, population growth and distribution, housing and employment patterns, and transportation systems.
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One day of lab work and 10 days of field work to provide an introduction to the study of urban and rural land uses and the techniques of mapping them, including the use of aerial photographs.
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Field studies, with the aid of maps and aerial photographs, of urban and urban-fringe land use--with emphasis on such problems as the reasons for the distribution of people, their industrial and commercial activities, and their transportation facilities. Study of geographic mapping techniques and practice in field mapping.
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The major features of the natural and human environments of the United States and Canada. Selected regions such as the East coast Megalopolis and the Great Plains.
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Geographic factors in the economic, social, and political situation of the countries of Western Europe. Major emphasis will be given to a geographic analysis of the problems and changes characterizing the area.
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The geography of continents or major areas outside Anglo-American and Western Europe. Special emphasis on the basic principles of economic and cultural geography of regionalization as illustrated in the area under consideration.
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The geography of continents or major areas outside Anglo-American and Western Europe. Special emphasis on the basic principles of economic and cultural geography of regionalization as illustrated in the area under consideration.
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