GEOG 200 Human Geography (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Social Sciences; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
This course explores the spatial nature of human activities. This includes discussing concepts and theories in human geography related to subfields within the discipline, like population, cultural, economic, and political geographies.
Course Content
A. Population Geography
B. Migration
C. Cultural Geography
D. Political Geography
E. Economic Geography
F. Development Geography
G. Urban Geography
Student Outcomes
1. Create maps and visualizations that can explain human geographic phenomena.
2. Apply geographic concepts in understanding how human processes vary across places, both large scale and small scale.
3. Articulate how cultural differences impact how places and geographic phenomena are perceived.
4. Explain how human decisions shape spatial disparities and inequalities from global to local scale.
5. Apply geographic concepts and theories to explain real-world problems.
Degree Outcomes
Social Sciences: Graduates analyze and interpret social phenomenon using social science theories and methods.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
1. Written assignments
2. Online discussions
3. Quizzes
4. Exams
5. Using web-based mapping applications
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