Online Courses Handbook 2003

1437 (v.4) Geography 112 - Global Change - Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Urbanisation and Social Inequality

Area:	School of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	4.5
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork:	1 x 0.5 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s):	300690 (v.2) GPH11 Technological Revolutions (Introduction to Human Geography)
Anti Requisite(s):	9937 (v.3) Geography 114 - Global Change - Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Urbanisation and Social Inequality
An introduction to population geography - concepts, patterns, distribution and growth, composition, migration. Economic geography - the agricultural, urban and industrial revolutions, patterns of activity, global trends. Cultural geography - race, religion, language and nationality, culture in world geopolitics. Settlement geography - urban development, socioeconomic differentiation within the city. Data collection and analysis.