Unit 1 - Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
The topics for this section include the following:
Note: The themes in this unit will be integrated within the course
- Geography as a field of inquiry
- Evolution of key geographical concepts and models associated with notable geographers
- Key concepts underlying the geographical perspective: location, space, place, scale, pattern, regionalization, and globalization
- Key geographical skills
- How to use and think about maps and spatial data
- How to understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in places
- How to recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes
- How to define regions and evaluate the regionalization process
- How to characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places
- New geographic technologies, such as GIS and GPS
- Sources of geographical ideas and data: the field, census data
Note: The themes in this unit will be integrated within the course