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Human Geography (ENV-106)

Semester:	Spring 2024
Number:	0125-106-001
Instructor:	Ryan Ehrhart
Days:	Tuesday Thursday 4:30 pm - 5:45 pm
Note:	Traditional In-Person Class
Location:	Garden City - Hagedorn Hall of Enterprise 216
Credits:	3
Course Materials:	View Text Books
Description:	Students will analyze the spatial variation of human activity, using geographic themes of region, mobility, globalization, nature-culture, and cultural landscape. Investigations include: economic, political, cultural and human-environment processes and patterns; population and migration; diffusion (of ideas, innovations, and diseases); urbanization; uneven development; resource use; and human impacts on the environment. (Learning Goals:G;Distribution Reqs:Social Sciences)
Learning Goals:	Students will write knowledgeably about environmental and social issues using the geographic themes of region, mobility, globalization, nature-culture, and cultural landscape.Students will clearly articulate how geographic scale (e.g. global, world regional, national, urban, household, individual) is an important consideration when analyzing environmental and social issues, and how some strategies for solving problems may scale up easily, while others may only be suitable for specific locations and situations.Students will be able to explain and analyze how environmental and social issues are influenced by economic, political, and cultural processes. Students will engage with the university's learning goals especially in the areas of: a) written communication; b) critical and integrative thinking; and c) global citizenship. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here.

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