Understanding Cultural and Human Geography
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
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.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Writing the World-The Mapmaker's Craft
- 02: The Problem with Geographical Determinism
- 03: Anthropocene-The Age of Human Impact
- 04: Climate Change and Civilization
- 05: Global Land Change
- 06: The End of Global Population Growth
- 07: The Agricultural Puzzle
- 08: Disease Geography
- 09: 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
Taught by
Paul Robbins, Ph.D.
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