VE World Geography

This World Geography course provides students with an overview of world geography. This class examines political, economic production and development, movement, social and cultural diversity of world civilizations from historical to current viewpoints with the base of study always being the interrelated geographical principals. This course will also review basic geography skills such as cartography, topography, demography, climate patterns, and culture. A world that is constantly shrinking because of improved technology and communication implies the need for understanding those nations and cultures with which we are sometimes not familiar. These concepts are used to investigate various world regions. Emphasis of study is based on a global perspective as to where and how various nations and regions fit into a composite world.