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GEO 106 Human Geography

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8. COURSE OUTLINE
1.0 The Nature of Human Geography
  1.1 Culture, Environment and Change
  1.2 Site and Situation
  1.3 Location, Direction and Distance
  1.4 Size and Scale
  1.5 Population Geography
2.0 Global Linguistic and Religion Mosaics
  2.1 Geography and Language
  2.2 Diffusion of Language
  2.3 Modern Language Mosaics
  2.4 Origin and Distribution of Religion
  2.5 Religions:  Location and Diffusion
  2.6 Religion, Culture and Conflict
3.0 Rural and Urbanized World
  3.1 Livelihoods of Rural People
  3.2 Rural Settlements Forms
  3.3 Civilization and Urbanization
  3.4 Urbanization and Location
  3.5 Urban Patterns and Structure
4.0 Economic Change
  4.1 Concepts of Development
  4.2 Industrial Activity and Geographical Location
  4.3 World Industrial Regions
  4.4 Deindustrialization and the Rise of the Service Sector
5.0 The Political Imprint
  5.1 Political Culture and the Urban State
  5.2 State Organization
  5.3 National Power
  5.4 Multinationalism
6.0 Social Geographies of the Modern World
  6.1 Nutrition
  6.2 Spatial Patterns of Health and Disease
  6.3 Race and Ethnicity
  6.4 Gender and Geographic Inequity
7.0 Coping with a Rapidly Changing World
  7.1 Human Alterations of the Physical World
  7.2 Confronting Human-Induced Environmental Change
  7.3 Policy Responses to Demographic Changes
  7.4 The Changing Global Political Landscape