2013 – 2014 - Barton College

156 Arts and Sciences: History and Social Sciencesimpact study. Topics may include population densities, regional natural hazards and diseases, landuse, food production systems (for example: slash and burn agriculture or terraced farming) andsustainability, impacts of global warming and climate change, public lands and resource conflicts,or habitat fragmentation and pollution. Fall and Spring.GEO 310. Geography of Europe. 3.A study of the distribution and interrelationships of landforms, climates, people, and culturalfeatures of Europe. [G].Prerequisite: GEO 201 or 212 or HIS 101 or 102.GEO 320. Geography of Anglo-America. 3.A survey of the cultural and physical geography of Canada and the United States. Seminardiscussions of textbook and supplemental readings, including Muir, Carson, de Blieu, Suzuki,and others. Spring.Prerequisite: GEO 201 or 212 or HIS 101 or 102.GEO 330. Geography of Latin America. 3.A study of the geographic distribution of natural and cultural phenomena in the countries to thesouth of the United States. [G].Prerequisite: GEO 201 or 212 or HIS 101 or 102.GEO 340. Political Geography. 3.This course explores the links between society and space — geography, criminal activity, conflictand terrorism, and genocide — focusing on problem-solving methods. Topics include theenvironmental causes of conflict, the geographic distribution of terrorist activities, and techniquesfor mapping crime statistics and reading political landscapes. Spring.Prerequisite: GEO 201, or any 200-level political science course.Note: Also listed as POL 340.GEO 360. A Sense of Place: UnderstandingGeographical Landscapes. 3.Geographers have studied place images since the 1970s, recognizing that all of us possess ageographic imagination. Visual media and journalism are primary ways that individuals obtaingeographic knowledge about the world and culture, and environmental policy are matters ofmedia. Culturally reproduced and mediated landscapes help form local and national identities,a sense of belonging and self-understanding as a people. This course explores and deconstructshow place and the environment are represented in geographic ‘texts’ — scientific discourse, touristbrochures, photographs, documentaries, and so on.