Undergraduate - Clarion University

98 Clarion University of Pennsylvania
College of Arts
and Sciences
GEOG 244: THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY: PLANNING THE HUMAN ENVIRONMENT 3 s.h.
Analyzes the geographic structure of rural and urban life, emphasizing the environmental, economic, and transport connections
between cities and rural areas. Focuses both on the fundamental question of planning philosophy (What constitutes a suitable
human environment) and on the methods by which planning goals might be reached. Offered occasionally.
GEOG 250: GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE 3 s.h.
Study of European landscapes and regions. Students develop an understanding of the geographic basis of Europe’s major
economic and social problems. Emphasizes Western Europe. The Soviet Union is not included in this course. Recommended for
majors in history and social science. Every other year.
GEOG 252: GEOGRAPHY OF LATIN AMERICA 3 s.h.
Focuses on the complex social, economic, and political problems confronting this diverse region. Gives special attention to
relationships between Latin America, the United States, and other countries. Includes a synthesis of the physical and cultural
landscapes of the region. Emphasizes understanding developmental processes in Latin American nations and the geographical
importance of the region today and in the 21st century. No prerequisites. Offered occasionally.
GEOG 256: GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN 3 s.h.
Study of the Caribbean, with a special tour on the geography and the cultural and socio-economic aspects of the Caribbean.
Emphasizes socio-economic history of slavery and the plantation economy, including issues of race relations and their spatial
dimensions. Traces the economic transition away from the plantation economy, the rise of an active black leadership, urbanization
and urban planning in the region, attempts at economic and political regional integration, economic development strategies of
small Caribbean islands, and the impact of tourism as the new “mono” culture of the region. Offered occasionally.
GEOG 257: GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 3 s.h.
Analyzes geographic problems, natural and cultural, of the United States and Canada; the synthesis of physical, biotic, economic,
and social patterns and problems of geographic regions of North America; the interrelationship of North American political structures
and their ties with the rest of the world. Each semester.
GEOG 258: GEOGRAPHY OF PENNSYLVANIA 3 s.h.
Regional analysis of Pennsylvania emphasizing man’s cultural and economic response to environmental factors. Gives special
attention to the resources of the state, analyzing their extent, their use, the need for well-directed conservation, and the regional
planning program of the commonwealth. Offered occasionally.
GEOG 260: ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY 3 s.h.
Explores the production, exchange, and use of the basic commodities of the world; the relationship between the physical
factors and economic conditions and the patterns of major economic activities, world trade, and trade routes; economic landscapes;
and problems of economic development. Recommended for majors in economics, history, and political science. Every other year.
GEOG 265: TRADE AND TRANSPORTATION 3 s.h.
Geographic inquiry into worldwide forces of supply and demand and related transport modes and media. Examines the
central producer and service functions of population centers; world trade patterns of commodities, economic blocs, stages of
economic development; and problems related to the economic interdependence of regions and nations. Based on concepts learned
in GEOG 260. Every other year.
GEOG 300: SPECIAL TOPICS
Topics of special interest in various areas of physical, human, or regional geography. Professor selects format most suitable to
the study. Enrollment by consent of the instructor. Offered occasionally.
GEOG/ES 301: CLIMATOLOGY IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
3 s.h.
Introduces climate change and variability. Focuses on various atmospheric processes of change and variation and relates
those processes to various surface environmental phenomena. Examines aspects of Earth’s past climates (paleoclimates) to fully
understand present and possible future climates. Prerequisite: ES 280.
GEOG 310: GEOGRAPHY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD 3 s.h.
Examines the commonalities developing countries have faced and continue to face in their push toward development, particularly
as they relate to the spatial aspects affecting the conditions of the development process. Analyzes theories of growth and social and
economic development, as well as the historical and contemporary relationship between the “developed” and the developing
world. Discusses issues such as population growth and human settlement patterns, the rural/urban dichotomy, industrialization and
urbanization, regional trading blocks, transportation and development, and the socio-economic development planning. Examines
the impact of cultural elements such as religion and the role of women in development. Writing-intensive course. No prerequisite.
On demand.
GEOG 315:
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER,
AND THEIR SPATIAL DIMENSIONS
3 s.h.
Focuses on methods and theories geographers have used to explore how social relations of race, class, and gender have been
structured, influenced, and expressed spatially. Exposes students to social/spatial construction theories (the social construction of
race and gender, the social production of space, and the role of space in the construction of gender and race), and “postmodern”
economic restructuring and its impact on the location and (race, class, and gender component of the) employment structure of
“flexible” industries. Explores contemporary theories on the role of race/gender and class intersection in the reproduction process,
and the colonial and postcolonial geographies of gender and race. Writing intensive course. Prerequisite: None. Offered fall, odd
numbered years.