Geography 1400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Urban Sprawl, Language Pedagogy, Human Geography
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Theoretical focus: how geographers think about real world problems, issues, and human activities. Encourages us to think about contemporary society. Methodological focus: models used to study the location, distribution, and creation of human activities and landscapes. Key geographic techniques - maps, gis, qualitative/quantitative tools. Strive to balance course-work with other aspects of life. Forum to explore, discuss, and practice geography in small groups. Provide you with more attention and feedback than possible in larger class. Complete lecture notes are not posted on owl. Geography: description of the world and writing about the world. Trying to make sense of the world. Human geography: describes, writes about, studies the earth"s surface as the space within which the human population lives. studies the distribution of humans and their activities on the surface of the earth and the processes that generate these distributions. Goals of human geography: describing, writing about, studying the human world to increase our understanding of it.