Course curriculum

    1. Syllabus

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    1. 1.1 Introduction to Maps: projections, scale, and thematic maps

    2. Quiz 1.1

    3. 1.1 Interactive Lab: Reading Maps: Types, Grids and Scale

    4. 1.2 Geographic Data: sources, GIS, and remote sensing

    5. Quiz 1.2

    6. 1.3 The Power of Geographic Data: using data to make decisions

    7. Quiz 1.3

    8. 1.3 Interactive Lab: Counts, Rates and Decisions

    9. 1.4 Spatial Concepts: location, distance, pattern, and diffusion

    10. Quiz 1.4

    11. 1.4 Interactive Lab: Distance, Location and Pattern

    12. 1.5 Human-Environmental Interaction: possibilism and sustainability

    13. Quiz 1.5

    14. 1.5 Interactive Lab: Determinism, Possibilism, or Sustainability?

    15. 1.6 Scales of Analysis and Regional Analysis: local to global, formal and functional regions

    16. Quiz 1.6

    17. 1.6 Interactive Lab: Regions and Scale

    1. 2.1 Population Distribution: density, arithmetic, and physiological

    2. Quiz 2.1

    3. 2.1 Interactive Lab: Three Densities and a Dot Map

    4. 2.2 Consequences of Population Distribution

    5. Quiz 2.2

    6. 2.3 Population Composition: age-sex pyramids

    7. Quiz 2.3

    8. 2.3 Interactive Lab: Sex Ratios and Pyramid Signatures

    9. 2.4 Population Dynamics: birth rate, death rate, and natural increase

    10. Quiz 2.4

    11. 2.4 Interactive Lab: Rates and Doubling Time

    12. 2.5 The Demographic Transition Model: stages 1 to 5

    13. Quiz 2.5

    14. 2.5 Interactive Lab: Reading the DTM

    15. 2.6 Malthusian Theory and Its Critics

    16. Quiz 2.6

    17. 2.6 Interactive Lab: Malthus on the Graph

    18. 2.7 Population Policies: pronatalist and antinatalist

    19. Quiz 2.7

    20. 2.8 Women and Demographic Change; Aging Populations

    21. Quiz 2.8

    22. 2.8 Interactive Lab: Same Ratio, Different Countries

    1. 3.1 Causes of Migration: push and pull factors

    2. Quiz 3.1

    3. 3.1 Interactive Lab: Why Did They Move?

    4. 3.2 Forced and Voluntary Migration: refugees, internal displacement, and labor

    5. Quiz 3.2

    6. 3.2 Interactive Lab: Name That Move

    7. 3.3 Effects of Migration: economic, cultural, and political

    8. Quiz 3.3

    9. 3.3 Interactive Lab: The Migration Ledger

    1. 4.1 Introduction to Culture: traits, complexes, and regions

    2. Quiz 4.1

    3. 4.2 Cultural Landscapes: how culture shapes places

    4. Quiz 4.2

    5. 4.2 Interactive Lab: Reading the Layers of Oren Ford

    6. 4.3 Cultural Patterns: ethnicity, gender, and popular culture

    7. Quiz 4.3

    8. 4.4 Types of Diffusion: relocation, expansion, contagious, hierarchical, stimulus

    9. Quiz 4.4

    10. 4.4 Interactive Lab: Reading Spread Diagrams

    11. 4.5 Causes of Diffusion: historical and contemporary

    12. Quiz 4.5

    13. 4.6 Diffusion of Religion and Language: families, hearths, and lingua francas

    14. Quiz 4.6

    15. 4.6 Interactive Lab: Hearths, Arrows and Ports

    16. 4.7 Effects of Diffusion: acculturation, assimilation, and globalization

    17. Quiz 4.7

    18. 4.7 Interactive Lab: Five Labels for One World

    1. 5.1 Introduction to Political Geography: states, nations, and nation-states

    2. Quiz 5.1

    3. 5.1 Interactive Lab: Sort the Map: States, Nations and Regions

    4. 5.2 Political Processes: sovereignty and the evolution of states

    5. Quiz 5.2

    6. 5.3 Political Power and Territoriality

    7. Quiz 5.3

    8. 5.3 Interactive Lab: Power on the Merrow Sea

    9. 5.4 Defining Political Boundaries and Their Function

    10. Quiz 5.4

    11. 5.4 Interactive Lab: Boundary Sorting Yard

    12. 5.5 Internal Boundaries: gerrymandering and voting districts

    13. Quiz 5.5

    14. 5.5 Interactive Lab: Same Votes, Different Maps

    15. 5.6 Forms of Governance: unitary and federal

    16. Quiz 5.6

    17. 5.7 Devolution and Challenges to Sovereignty

    18. Quiz 5.7

    19. 5.7 Interactive Lab: Sort the Forces on a State

    20. 5.8 Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces: consequences for states

    21. Quiz 5.8

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