Description
Prerequisite: GEO 103 Cultural Geography
Credit Hours: 4 cr. Hrs. (6pds: 3 lec. 3 lab)
Program of Study: AA-Life Science-SIB Concentration, AAS-SIB
Transfer Information: ASU: Dept. Elective (GCU); NAU Dept. Elective (GSP); UA Equiv. (GEOG 250)
6/11/2015 Approved TOCC BOT
Course Description: This course will use a geographical approach to study human-environmental systems in the borderland regions, with special emphasis on the U.S.-Mexico border and comparative Indigenous case studies. We will look at the socio-political and economic systems that are produced by human communities and how different societies use the borderland landscape for a series of political conflicts over space and culture. Some of the theoretical concepts we will analyze are: the settler state, sovereignty, territory, borders, nation, international law and environment.