If you complete this course and do well, you will be able to:

  1. Understand the concepts of cultural geography, culture area, cultural diffusion, cultural ecology, cultural integration, and cultural landscapes.
  2. Understand population patterns, distribution, migration, and the relationship between culture and population characteristics.
  3. Recognize the distribution and characteristics of agriculture and the cultural domestication of plants.
  4. Differentiate between formal and functional political culture regions.
  5. Identify regions charactirzed by major linguistic families.
  6. Identify areas characterized by major world religions.
  7. Define and identify characteristics and examples of folk culture.
  8. Understand how ethnicity can impact areas.
  9. Locate and identify areas of highly urbanized populations and sparsely urbanized populations.
  10. Differentiate among primary, secondary, and tertiary industries.