Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2022

GEOG 211   Geographies of Nature, Economy, Society
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2024 2023 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area Global Engagements
Area of InquirySocial Relations,Inst.& Agents
Liberal Arts Practices
FormerlyGEOG 111

Acquaints students with the approaches and subject matter of human and nature-society geography. It introduces geography’s longstanding concerns with spatial location, place, and nature-society interaction, as studied through ways of knowing that are central to the discipline—spatial representation and analysis, cross-scalar comparisons, integrative synthesis, and the social construction of space and environment. Case studies, drawn from all world regions, illustrate how geographers use these tools and perspectives to clarify such issues as human well-being and inequality, economic and sociocultural globalization, population patterns and processes, human impact on the environment, and sustainable development in the Anthropocene.