The first half of this course on Geography will focus on physical geography or the processes and phenomena of the physical world both above and below the Earth's surface. Then we'll turn our focus to human geography and explore the ways people occupy the Earth's surface.
What is Geography?
What is a Map?
What is space and how do we study it?
What is Physical Geography?
How Does the Earth Move?
What Does the Atmosphere Do?
How Does Air Temperature Shape a Place?
Where Does Wind Come From?
How Do Oceans Circulate?
What is a Cloud?
How Can Rain Create Conflict? Precipitation and Water Use
What Are the Different Types of Cyclones?
How do we Classify Climates?
What is Climate Change?
What Are Ecosystems?
Population & Food
What is Soil (and Why is it Important)?
What Are Rocks and How Do They Form?
The Plate Tectonics Revolution
How Does the Earth Create Different Landforms?
What Are Volcanoes?
What is Weathering?
How Rivers Shape the Landscape
Why Does Jakarta Flood So Easily?
Groundwater & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
What Are Glaciers?
Natural Hazards
What is Human Geography?
Race, Ethnicity, and the Cultural Landscape
How Does Language Move?
How Did Religion Spread Along the Silk Road?
Where and Why Do People Move?
How Populations Grow and Change
How Does Disease Move?
Tyranny of the Map
What Holds a Country Together or Tears it Apart?
What are the Patterns of Border Conflicts?
Capitalism, Communism, & Political Economies
Colonialism
What is a “Developed” Country?
GMOs and their Role in Agriculture
Why is There Uneven Access to Food?
How Do We Produce Food?
Mineral Extraction
Why are People Moving to Cities?
How Are Cities Organized?
What is Urban Planning?
How did Detroit Become the Motor City?
Sustainable Urban Design
Geographies of the Future
Hranica v srdci
Cestománie
Nová cestománie
The Great Rift: Africa's Wild Heart
Crazy Borders
Creedon's Atlas of Ireland
Men of Rock
Making Scotland's Landscape
Terra&Acqua
Ireland's Coast
Spolu na hranici
Minnesota: A History of the Land
Our Coast
J'ai vu changer la Terre
Earth From Above
Vu sur Terre
The World About Us
New Zealand from Above
Mongolsko – země modrého nebe
V karavanu po Česku