Computational Patterns in Global Data

1.5 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course leverages large data sets on national and global demography, health and wealth to explore human and cultural aspects of various regions of the world including the spatial manifestations of culture, population distribution and movements, language, religion, ethnicity, political geography and resource issues. The course examines human geography themes at national and international levels and probes the nature of geographical thinking and the characteristics of geography as a social science. [1.5]