Geography (GEOG)

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GEOG 212 GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA
(3-0) 3 credits. A regional and topical analysis of the geographic patterns of the United States and Canada. Focus is upon the interaction of groups of people with the natural environment to produce regional differentiation. Geographic aspects of the physical geography, population, culture groups, economy, settlement system, land division, and use of natural resources.

GEOG 101 INTRODUCTION TO GEOGRAPHY
(3-0) 3 credits. The course presents a broad, introductory overview of geographic concepts, themes, and elements designed to help students better understand and analyze the world from a geographic perspective. It provides a background to earth’s physical and human elements and systems. It also emphasizes the unique quality of world regions, and the spatial interaction of people, elements, and regions, as well as major global and regional problems and prospects.

GEOG 240 WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY I - THE LESS DEVELOPED REGIONS
(3-0) 3 credits. This course surveys the developing regions of the world in the context of post-cold war economic and political change. Emphasis will be placed on the demography, natural resource use, and pace of modernization in East Asia, in particular the country of China, and on the rapidly industrializing countries of Southeast Asia. Other significant regions include South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Islamic realm of North Africa and Western Asia.

GEOG 250 WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY II - THE DEVELOPED REGIONS
(3-0) 3 credits. This course examines the developed regions of the world. The focus is on the changing economic and political relationship between these regions-Europe and North America, in particular-and the developing regions of the world.

GEOG 400 CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
(3-0) 3 credits. A detailed analysis of the concept of culture in a geographical context, including such applications as culture and nature, cultural growth and change, cultural universals, culture and economy, cultural relativity, cultural landscape, cultural region, and cultural conflict.

Contact: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
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