GEOG 5300 - Geography of Europe

• Students will gain a fuller understanding of patterns relating to immigration, nationality, and ethnicity in contemporary Europe.
• Students will gain a fuller understanding of the characteristics of Europe’s physical geography.
• Students will gain a fuller understanding of the defining characteristics of Europe’s human geography, especially spatial patterns and processes relating to language, religion, and ethnicity.
• Students will gain a fuller understanding of the historical spatial processes relating to the evolution of Europe’s political map from antiquity to the present-day European Union.
• Students will gain a fuller understanding of the population geography of Europe.
• Students will gain a fuller understanding of the regional economies of Europe and the development of these economies over time and space, especially with regard to core-periphery relationships.