Cultural Geography, GE 354

Spring 2002
Professor Ellen Hansen

Cultural Geography focuses on the world’s different cultures, with an emphasis on cultural origins and movements, and the cultural characteristics of regions, such as language, religion, ethnicity, politics, historical development, agricultural methods, settlement patterns, and quality of life. Cultural ecology--the ways in which humans have interacted with their cultural and natural environment at various times--is also included in the study of Cultural Geography.

This course will examine people and their ways of life all over the world. We’ll focus on some of the geographic ideas, issues and tools that influence the ways we see the world, including: the ways we humans adapt to our environments and how we continue to transform the earth; our "sense of place"; human movements, including migration, urbanization, population growth, and refugee movements; how we organize ourselves spatially; and how global interdependence is becoming one of the most important features of human activities.

Geographers are interested in how place and space shape culture and the reverse--how culture shapes place and space. The course examines ideas about places, meanings people attach to place and how this varies geographically, and the myths people create about places.

For more information, contact:
Professor Ellen Hansen
phone: (620) 341-5576

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