GEOG270

Identify and explain key concepts in cultural geography and the various ways culture has been approached in geography.

Identify and describe different types of culture regions with actual examples and various types and characteristics of folk and popular cultural diffusion with actual examples.

Explain the role places and spatial segregation plays in the formation, maintenance and emelioration of racial and ethnic identity and difference.

Describe the ways geographers approach race, gender, class and sexuality as categories of cultural identity and meaning.

Describe the micro-scale geographies of gender, including the moral and gendered demarcation of public and private space and the gendered constraints to mobility.

Describe the micro-scale geographies of gender, including the moral and gendered demarcation of public and private space and the gendered constraints to mobility.

Explain the significance and different scales of home and belonging as a cultural phenomenon.

Describe the current trends toward and resultant conflicts caused by transnationalism as a consequence of cultural globalization.

Comment on possible impacts of future globalization on world cultures: western and non-western.