GEOG 10AC
Worldings: Regions, Peoples and States
Geography is a way of thinking deeply and expansively about our place in the world and this course is designed to transform how you think about America though understanding its place within a global context. Through concepts central to the field of geography such as space, nature, empire and globalization we will explore the issues of race, culture, ethnicity that pepper the pages of newspapers almost every day in stories of immigration, police violence, global warming, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism. We explore these issues in a way that will change how you understand both America and the world.
Topics
- Understand the complexities of different racial/ethnic groups and their role in the making of America through comparative study in their global context Articulate a critical understanding of the core themes in human geography (Space, Nature, Empire, and Globalization) and explain their role in constituting forms of difference (race, ethnicity etc.) in the contemporary world. Discuss the violent and contested histories of regions, cities, and neighborhoods whose enduring material structures produce and reproduce racial inequalities in spatial form. Explain the processes through which environmental changes are creating new vastly uneven vulnerabilities among different racial, ethnic and class groups. Explain how concepts of nature have been a means for making and fixing of ethnic and racial difference in America. Explain how global uneven development and racial and economic inequities are connected to debates around immigration, citizenship and wealth/poverty in America.
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027