GEOG 140 Introduction to Cultural Geography

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

1. given a global or regional map, describe the spatial distributions of cultural phenomena, such as religion, language, agriculture, demographics, governance, folk traditions, popular trends and ethnicity;
2. explore concepts of cultural appropriation;
3. assess ideologies around ethnicity and race;
4. examine aspects of human political behaviour, including territorialism, breaking up of empires, changing political landscapes, and the rise of ethnic nationalism;
5. explore the role of urbanization on culture; and
6. examine the cultural imprint of the urban landscape.
7. explain cultural spatial distributions using the themes of culture region, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural interaction and cultural landscape;
8. utilize a variety of mapping and graphing techniques to present and analyze cultural geographic data;
9. be able to identify over 100 countries and significant bodies of water;
10. identify demographic trends and explore driving forces behind these trends;
11. understand origins of agriculture, recent changes in agriculture and identify global patterns of agriculture;
12. identify distribution of major language groups, explore the links between other aspects of culture and language;
13. identify major world religions, their characteristics, distribution and interconnectedness with other cultural traits;
14. distinguish between folk culture, popular culture and indigenous culture;