Course
Description

Examination of spatial dimensions of culture, emphasizing patterns of selected cultural elements--language, religion, population, settlement, political and economic landscapes, and human/environment interactions.

Methods of Course Instruction

All course content is presented on the World Wide Web, in Blackboard. The lessons are keyed in and submitted/uploaded   from your desktop into Blackboard.  Your instructor's emails, evaluation, and comments will also be in Blackboard. Weekly quizzes are online, and you will upload your project too.  The final exam is proctored, closed book and online.

• Understand the nature of human geography, what it is, and how it could enhance your understanding of the world and make you a better citizen.

• Understand and compare folk and popular culture and find examples of each in the local area.

• Appreciate the impact of language on the international, as well as the local, scene.

• Master the concept of language family.

• Contrast the ethnic and universal religions and the Eastern and Western major systems; appreciate the impact of religion on culture.

• Define ethnic geography and appreciate its cultural dimension.

• Realize how human political systems affect the world, why the nation-state is a critical cultural element, and to understand the background of geo-politics.

• Explore the oldest and most important livelihood--agriculture--especially its variation over the world's area and the agricultural landscape.

• Understand the patterns and impact of industrial developments on most sections of the world.

• Discover the importance of the city in history from the neolithic age onward and learn the urban morphology of the city over time.

• Master the elements in the industrial city and realize the patterns of urban land use. Learn the patterns of urbanization in developing nations.

1. Nine written lessons and quizzes.= 50 points or 25% of the grade

2. Project report on an assigned nation = 50 points or 25% of the grade

3. Examination (final) 100 points or 505 of the grade

Materials

Required

Text(s)
Jordan-Bychkor, Terry and Mona Domosh, The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography, 111th ed., New York: WC Freeman, Inc.,

Note: The books for the course are in stock at College Bookstore, (740) 594-3505. Click here for online ordering.

Exams
Requirements

1 exam - Proctoring required

How is the exam to be taken: Online, closed book, proctored 

Date of Exam
Last two weeks