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GPHY 101 Human Geography Units: 3.00
The fundamentals of human geography including the meanings of place, the impacts of globalization, multiculturalism, population change and movement, environmental history and politics, cultural geography, issues of uneven resource distribution, the role of colonialism in the modern shape of the world, agricultural geography, and urban geography.
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $30.
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $30.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 18 Tutorial, 42 Online Activity, 36 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Exclusion BADR 100/3.0; BISC 100/3.0*.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Articulate the distinctiveness of Geography as a discipline.
- Describe key concepts of place, space, scale and location, and the relationships between these as they relate to Human Geography.
- Demonstrate an applied understanding of place and space-based approaches to contemporary issues and events.
- Identify core causes of social and geographical inequalities that shape our world (e.g., distribution of resources, migration controls, health disparities, etc.) and explain the impacts of these inequalities across multiple scales.
- Learn and apply a variety of research methods used in the study of Human Geography.