Course

Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
SAYA-0044
Version:
3
Organization's ID:
GEOG101: World Regional Geography
Organization:
Saylor Academy
Location:
Online
Length:
37 hours
Minimum Passing Score:
70
ACE Credit Recommendation Period:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 World Regional Geography
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to use a regional approach and spatial perspective to study the Earth's physical features and atmosphere, including landscape development, weather, climate, and geology, by exploring how humans' cultural, economic, and political activity are related to those features.

Learning Outcomes:

  • locate the world's regions and identify the geographic features that define them
  • use world regions to explain how a spatial perspective distinguishes geography from other disciplines
  • use maps to interpret human and physical phenomena
  • describe the tools and methods geographers use to visualize, explore and understand the world
  • name the factors that influence population distribution
  • explain the impact of colonialism on human geography and territorial borders
  • outline the role location plays in terms of communication and economic development
  • describe the interconnectedness of world regions in terms of natural hazards and environmental issues
  • describe conflict from a human geography perspective
  • apply geographical concepts such as diffusion, distance decay, centrifugal and centripetal forces, core and periphery, globalization, and rural-to-urban migration to understand places
  • explain how internal and external processes affect the physical landscape

General Topics:

  • Unit 1: Introduction to Geography Unit 2: Europe Unit 3: Russia Unit 4: North America Unit 5: Middle and South America Unit 6: Sub-Saharan Africa Unit 7: North Africa and Southwest Asia Unit 8: South Asia Unit 9: East and Southeast Asia Unit 10: Oceania
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Computer Based Training
  • Lectures

Methods of Assessment:

  • Examinations
Supplemental Materials
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