Goals and Objectives
This class meets the following sub-set of learning objectives, from the list of complete learning goals of the Geography Major:
#3. Understand how a region’s economic, political, cultural, demographic, and environmental processes intertwine within each other, between regions, and across scales to create the Earth’s complex human-environment mosaic, and its rural and urban landscapes
#6. Understand how human actions modify the physical environment and how the physical environment impacts human systems.
This class also contributes to the following goals and objectives of the Environment and Society Concentration
1. understand how human-environment relationships differ between regions, based on their biophysical, historical, political, economic, technological, and cultural contexts
2. understand how major social transformations, such as colonization, industrialization and globalization, have influenced our modes of living, our relationship with nature, and our landscapes
3. understand how resource-extraction regions (from agriculture, to mining, to fishing) are linked to global processes, contributing to uneven development, environmental and social impacts, and conflict within those regions
4. assess environmental problems and their resolution, incorporating biophysical, political, economic, legal, ethical, technical and cultural factors