Catalog 2014-2015
Catalog 2014-2015 > Course Descriptions - Undergraduate > HPS - History - Political Science > 20000
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From northern Texas to the Canadian prairie provinces. Examines the physical environment, resources, land use patterns and ethnic cultures of the region. The historical and political development of Kansas plays a central role in the course.
Study ofsettlement and development of Kansas from the time of Coronado's travels to the present. Introduces the study of Kansas government. Keyed to students seeking teaching certification.
The location and distribution of human cultural patterns throughout the world. Provides an overview of the spatial analysis of earth's human inhabitants, with a comprehensive view of settlement patterns and land use issues, and introduces the landscape as a cultural text.
Experience aspects of the discipline through a semester long practicum.
Introduces historical study of the beginnings and development of human culture and institutions, western and non-western. Basic introduction to historical study.
Examines development of civilization, western and non-western, in the modern era. Analysis of political, economic and cultural revolutions that have created contemporary culture and its tensions.