This course introduces students to the ways people, places, and environments are connected across the world. Human Geography explores how human activities—such as settlement, migration, culture, economic production, and political organization—shape the Earth’s surface and how, in turn, geographical conditions influence social life. Students will learn to think spatially, asking where things happen, why they happen there, and what consequences they have for individuals, communities, and regions.
Through everyday examples drawn from local and global contexts, the course examines key themes including population dynamics, migration, urban and rural life, culture, economic activities, globalization, boundaries, and human–environment relationships. Emphasis is placed on developing basic geographical skills such as map reading, interpreting simple data, and understanding spatial patterns, rather than on technical methods.
By the end of the course, students should be able to use geographical ideas to make sense of contemporary issues—such as urban growth, migration, development, and environmental change—and to better understand their own place in an increasingly interconnected world.