Online Courses Handbook 2003

9937 (v.3) Geography 114 - Global Change - Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Urbanisation and Social Inequality

Area:	School of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	4.5
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 4.5 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	1437 (v.4) Geography 112 - Global Change - Demography, Economic Development, Environment, Urbanisation and Social Inequality
Other Requisite(s):	Admission: to a course outside the School of Social Sciences.
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.