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Course Objectives | Chapters/Topics | Prerequisites | Materials Required

Course Objectives

During this course, students will participate in readings, discussions, and online explorations using these themes to study course topics:

culture region

cultural diffusion

cultural ecology

cultural integration

cultural landscape

Chapters/Topics

	Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
	Maps & Projections
	Chapter 1 - The Nature of Cultural Geography
	Chapter 2 - People on the Land
	Chapter 3 - The Agricultural World
	Chapter 4 - Political Patterns
	Chapter 5 - The Mosaic of Languages
	Chapter 6 - Religious Realms
	Chapter 7 - Folk Geography
	Chapter 8 - Popular Culture
	Chapter 9 - Ethnic Geography
	Chapter 10 - The City in Space and Time
	Chapter 11 - The Urban Mosaic
	Chapter 12 - Industrial Geography

Prerequisites

An open mind and ability to see the world outside of the US and Texas.

Materials Required for this Course

Textbooks

There are two required text for this course.

The text is The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography by Terry G Jordan-Bychkov and Mona Domosh. ISBM 0-7167-3801-5 published by W. H. Freeman and Company. It is available from
University Co-Op or Amazon.com as well as the publisher web site above. Their text companion web site is: http://www.whfreeman.com/jordan/

The atlas for this course is: Goode's World Atlas (Goode's World Atlas, 20th) published by Rand McNally and Company. ISBN: 0528843362. It is available at the University Co-Op and Amazon.com. You may opt to use only the atlas that came with the text, although it does not have some useful information. For example, country statistics are not available and must be gleaned from other sources.