GEOG 112 — Introduction to Human Geography
Geography and Resource Development · University of Ghana
The course seeks to expose students to the dominant themes which form important segments of Geography as a discipline. Question such as What is Geography? (what, where, why and when questions) and What is human Geography? (various approaches to the study of Human Geography – systematic and regional approaches) will be covered. In addition, man and environment interaction (man as a modifier and the influence of the environment on man), agriculture in human geography (world agricultural systems, world population – the history of population growth, world population distribution and key characteristics of population of a country), World‘s urbanization (processes and characteristics of urbanization in tropical Africa Course Code Course Title Credits GEOG 450 LONG ESSAY 3 GEOG 452 Techniques of Regional Science 3 GEOG 454 Spatial Organization 3
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 100
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- GEOG 111 — Introduction to Physical Geography
- GEOG 211 — Introduction to Geographic Thought
- GEOG 212 — Geomorphological Processes and Landforms
- GEOG 213 — Introduction to Weather and Climate
- GEOG 214 — Principles and Methods of Cartography
- GEOG 321 — Soils and Biogeography
- GEOG 322 — Introduction to Resource Analysis
- GEOG 323 — Regional Geography of Africa (One region outside West Africa)
- GEOG 324 — Regional Geography of West Africa, with Special Reference to Ghana
- GEOG 325 — Theory and Practice of Geography
- GEOG 326 — Research Methods
- GEOG 327 — Introduction to Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).