GEOG 1023 - Human Geography

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course focuses on the characteristics of human populations and societies, with a particular focus on the processes underlying and explaining the geographic patterns of human activities across diverse world regions. Course topics include human population dynamics (population growth and distribution, migrations, settlement patterns, urbanization), cultural geography (world languages and religions, folk and popular cultures), political and economic geography (political organization of the world, territorial issues, the global economy, and comparing more and less developed world regions), and land use (agriculture and industry).
MnTC Goals
5 History/Social/Behavioral Science, 8 Global Perspective

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

1. Introduction to Human Geography
2. Population
3. Migrations
4. Culture and Social Customs
5. Languages
6. Religions
7. Ethnic Geography
8. Political Geography and Colonialism
9. Economic and Development Geography
10. Food and Agriculture
11. Industry
12. Settlements and Urbanization
13. Resource issues

1. employ methods used by geographers and other social scientists to describe, analyze, and compare basic demographic, cultural, political, economic, and settlement characteristics of peoples around the world.
2. use social science vocabulary, concepts, and theories to provide explanations for patterns in the ways of life by human groups.
3. illustrate the inter-connections and relationships across space and boundaries by individuals and societies in our human world which is both very diverse and rapidly globalizing.

05. 03. Use and critique alternative explanatory systems or theories.

05. 04. Develop and communicate alternative explanations or solutions for contemporary social issues.
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
08. 01. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.

08. 02. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.

08. 03. Analyze specific international problems, illustrating the cultural, economic, and political differences that affect their solution.

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