Geography 2:  Human Geography 

Course Description

Geography is an interdisciplinary course of study.  Human geography examines the relationship between humans and their environments.  It emphasizes the relationship between places and the cultural, social, and economic processes occurring there. 

Course readings are found in the corresponding Canvas module for each course.

Calendar of Assignments:

Map Quizzes:

Map quiz countries

Asia Map
Africa Map
Middle East Map
Europe Map
Latin America Map

Lecture Power Points:

Chapter 1: Introduction to Human Geography

Chapter 2: Population Geographies

Chapter 3: Migration Geographies

Chapter 4: Geographies of Development

Chapter 5: Globalization & Culture

Chapter 6: Geographies of Language

Chapter 7:  Geographies of Religion

Chapter 8:  Political Geographies
Chapter 9: Geographies of Agriculture
Chapter 10:  Geographies of Manufacturing
Chapter 11: Natural Resource Geogrpahies
Chapter 12: Urban Geographies

Additional Readings:

Human-Enviornment

Embattled Borderlands

Teeth Chiseling Video

Globalization

What is Globalization?

Development/Wealth&Poverty
The Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.
America's Middle Class No Longer World's Richest
Study Shows Pregnant Indian Women Underweight
The Social Progress Index--Michael Green
The Social Progress Imperative
Paul Gilding--Too Much Growth, The Earth is Full
David Pilling--GDP is Choking Us and the Planet
New Zealand's Well-Being Budget

Population Change
World Population Clock
Iran's Birth Control Policy
Manila's "Baby Factory"
Opinion: Don't Ask How to Feed the 9 billion
Growing up in a Romanian Orphanage
China's One Child Policy
The Age That Women Have Babies in America

One Child Nation: Official Trailer

Global Fertility Crash: Bloomberg

Old Age is the Next Global Economic Crisis

Migration
The French Fight "Kebabization"
U.S. Involvement in Latin America and Immigration Policy
The Benefits of "Chain Migration" in the U.S.

Globalization and Culture
Tourism Industry: Instagram Crowds May Be Ruining Nature
An Introductioin to Globalization and Culture

 Language
Pidgin, Patois, Slang, Creole and David Copperfield
Revival of Extinct Yurok Language in California
Native American Languages in the U.S.
The NY Times Language Quiz

Ethnicity/Race/Identity
EPA's Environmental Justice Map
America's Memorial to the Victims of White Supremacy
Montgomery Advertiser Apologizes for Lynching Coverage
Latinos in CA Among Natino's Most Segregated
The Myth of Racial Equality in America

Political
The Diminishing Lands of the Lakota
White Nationalists March on Poland's Independence Day
1,000 Years of Border Change in Europe
Opinion: Colonialism Not To Blame for Middle East's Problems

Agriculture
Apocalypse Pig: the last antibiotic begins to fail
Carbon Farming
Ethan Roland--Carbon Farming
PBS's Frontline: The Trouble with Chicken
Sustainable Fish to Eat
The Diet that Could Help Climate Change
The Truth About Meat:  KCET
Save the Earth: Feed the Planet
Obesity, climate change and hunger must be fought as one
Takeout Creates A Lot of Waste
Food Waste is the World's Dumbest Problem

Manufacturing
NPR's Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
Leslie Chang's Factory Girls
How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh

Environment
University of California's Climate Lab

Can Diet Diminish Climate Change
James Hansen's Predictions in 1988 Coming True
James Burke's After the Warming

Bluefin Tuna Overfishing

Stewart Brand on Nuclear Power

Earth System Impacts of the European Arrival and Great Dying in the Americas After 1492

Urban
The Littlest Parks Could Make All the Difference

Our World in Data: Urbanization