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GEOG 155 — DEVELOPMENT OF GEOGRAPHIC THOUGHT I

BA BA Geography and Rural Development · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

The specific objectives of the course are to establish the need to study the history and development of geographic thought and identify the nature and origins of geography’s chief themes. Topics include the need for the study of the history of geographic thought, geography in antiquity: role of Homer, Herodotus, Eratosthenes, Strabo, etc.; Geography in the middle Ages and Renaissance, Arab Geography, and influence of Christianity.

Credits
2
Level
Level 100

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