GRS 100 - Cultural Geography and Global Societies

Upper Division

Prerequisites
GRS 001.

This course exposes students to the breadth and excitement of the field of geography. Cultural geography studies the ways people shape and give meaning to their environment and allows us to look at the fascinating variety of human activity in the world-the human landscape. Geographic knowledge is vital to understanding national and international issues that dominate daily news reports. This course examines the relevance of geographic methods and concepts to social science topics such as agricultural patterns and practices, architecture, ethnic traditions and conflicts, gender, health, migration, population, political economy, poverty, religion, resource utilization, social change and urban planning.

Core Curriculum Designation(s)
GP - Global Perspectives

Additional Notes
This course may only be completed at Saint Mary’s College.

Course credits: 1