Human Geography
one-way Exclusions
One 2-hour lecture & one 1.5 hour lab per week
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Course Description
This course takes a place and space-based approach to key social issues of our time involving energy, nature, economy, food, racism, spatial justice, cities, and colonialism. We will analyze the movements of people and things and work to understand how we make and remake the world by our actions. The unique feature of this course lies in its active grounding of global issues in local and hands-on fieldwork. You will learn about where you are here in Kingston just as you learn about our changing global context.
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.
Assessments
Subject to Change
- Midterm Quiz: 10%
- learning Labs (best 10 of 11): 30%
- Geography of ‘X’ Research Project: 30%
- Final Exam: 30%