Geography school training courses in Dearborn, MI (public, in-house or online)

Geography emphasizes spatial relationships, locations, and distributions. Geographers address the
questions of ¡°where¡± and ¡°why¡± by examining the location of people and activities across the earth¡¯’s
surface, and the reasons for their distribution. Geographers study spatial variations in the way people
interact with one another and their environments. In short, geography is an exciting discipline that has great
relevance and application to our everyday lives.

Geograph...

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This course provides students with an introduction to the cultural factors that impact the way in which humans use the environment. Topics include settlement patterns, the modification of the landscape, and resource utilization.
Topics and Objectives
Human Population and Migration Patterns
Describe places and regions using distributions of physical and human characteristics.
Use the stages of population growth and population pyramids to make predictions.
Explain how geography i...

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This course develops a global perspective on the historical, existing, and emerging commercial relationships between the United States and the rest of the world and presents the patterns of interaction among major countries. The course includes an overview of the location, flow, and uses of the earth’s principle resources, both natural and cultural. Emphasis is placed on the manner in which the physical characteristics of the earth’s surface affect political, social, cultural, and econ...

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This course presents the travel and tourism destinations that are regularly top sellers, according to the American Society of Travel Agents. These are the states of Florida, Nevada, New York, Hawaii, California, Washington D.C., Alaska and Illinois; the provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec in Canada; and the countries of England, France, Italy, Mexico, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Ireland and Australia. Maps are presented with an orientation to location of each destination. The cour...

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This course serves as an introduction to the study of regional geography at the global scale. Students will become familiar with the basic concepts in geography, the topic of uneven development, and the factors (landforms, climate, population, resources, culture, economic activity, and historical evolution) that affect uneven development within and among all the world?s major regions. A distance-learning version of World Regional Geography is available. Students taking the web-based version of t...

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