INTL 102 - Global Geography: People, Places, and Regions

Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
1 1 unit(s)

(Same as GEOG 102) Places and spatial relations are central to human experience and to the discipline of geography. From our hometowns to the campus, the United States, and the wider world, we both inherit and continually reshape our geographies through everyday practices, movements, and the meanings we attach to spaces. This course examines how people shape cultural landscapes and produce spatial divisions that reflect global power relations, ideologies, and inequalities. Through case studies from the Hudson Valley and beyond, we explore the making of the modern world across local, national, and global scales. Key themes include mapping and spatial representation, population and sustainable development, culture and colonial and postcolonial transformations of place, urban geographies, and the political organization of global space. Yu Zhou.

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS