World Regions in Global Context

This course draws on and explores the concept of the geographic region as a way to organize and understand our fast -changing and interconnected world. Geographic concepts (e.g., space, place, distance, scale, borders, and regions) areused to study environmental, economic, social, and political conditions and identify key concerns in the culturally diverse world. The course will examine geographic world regions (e.g., South America, Europe, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and others), connections in and between these regions, and how these regions and their populations interact as parts of a global system. For each world region, you will learn major historical events, specific interactions between natural environment and social systems, and their potential for and challenges to sustainable development.

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