Introduction to Human Geography (UCSB Geography-5)

By Professor Stuart Sweeney, UCSB Geography Dept.

Overview:

  • Organization: An entire 10-week undergraduate course, organized into 22 lectures around six themes.
  • Format: This course was taught in the Fall of 2000 from powerpoint slideshows with embedded images (JPG), live Excel files and animations (GIF & AVI) derived from ARCview. Also includes separate live PC-Raster models and live ARCview representations. In addition, these same materials will be offered in a parallel html format to allow full access to all materials via a web-browser, without need for powerpoint.
  • Size: 198mb, not including size of unzipped files.
  • Graphical heirarchy of course materials
  • Collection Metadata (forthcoming)

COURSE MATERIALS

A. FOUNDATION

1. History of the Discipline: (powerpoint | html)
2. Fundamental Concepts: (powerpoint | html)
3. Models in Geography: (powerpoint | html)
 

B. CULTURAL GEOGRAPY

4. Cultural Geography: (powerpoint | html)
 

C. SPATIAL DEMOGRAPHY

5. Spatial Demography-Population Patterns: (powerpoint | html)
6. Spatial Demography-Global Patterns: (powerpoint | html)
7. Spatial Demography-Disease Types and Models: (powerpoint | html)
8. Spatial Demography-Disease Control Strategies: (powerpoint | html)
9. Spatial Demography-Migration: (powerpoint | html)
10. Spatial Demography-Population Problems and Prospects: (powerpoint | html)
 

D. URBAN GEOGRAPHY

11. Urban Geography-History of Urbanization: (powerpoint | html)
12. Urban Geography-Primate Cities and Modern Western Cities: (powerpoint | html)
13. Urban Geography-Von Thunen and Urbanization in the 90's: (powerpoint | html)
14. Urban Geography-Central Place Theory: (powerpoint | html)
15. Urban Geography-The Modern City: (powerpoint | html)
 

E. SPATIAL ECONOMICS

16. Spatial Economics-Growth Poles and Theories of Growth: (_________ | html)
17. Spatial Economics-Industrial Location: (powerpoint | html)
18. Spatial Economics-Measures of Development: (powerpoint | html)
 

F. HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS

19. Human Environment Interactions-Definitions: (powerpoint | html)
20. Human Environment Interactions-In the News, Climate Change: (powerpoint | html)
21. Human Environment Interactions-The Lithosphere: (powerpoint | html)
22. Human Environment Interactions-Water and Waste: (powerpoint | html)