Understanding Cultural and Human Geography

From climate change and population growth to the global economy and geopolitical strife, tackle the world's biggest questions in this one-of-a-kind course.

Topics Covered:

• 1: Writing the World-The Mapmaker's Craft
• 2: The Problem with Geographical Determinism
• 3: Anthropocene-The Age of Human Impact
• 4: Climate Change and Civilization
• 5: Global Land Change
• 6: The End of Global Population Growth
• 7: The Agricultural Puzzle
• 8: Disease Geography
• 9: Political Ecology
• 10: Economic Geography-Globalization Origins
• 11: The Columbian Exchange
• 12: Uneven Development and Global Poverty
• 13: The New Global Economy
• 14: Restless Humanity-The Migration Conundrum
• 15: Urbanization-The Rise of New World Cities
• 16: Geography of Language
• 17: Understanding Cultural Geography
• 18: The Importance of Place
• 19: Cultural Commodification
• 20: Culture, Power, and the Politics of Meaning
• 21: The Geopolitical Imagination
• 22: Regionalism and the Rise of New States
• 23: Supranationalism-Taking on Big Problems
• 24: Future Geographies