Dec 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Cal State East Bay Catalog
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GEOG 120 - Human Geography: Diversity and Globalization


Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4
Exploring cultural diversity in this increasingly globalized world. Contemporary topics of human population, food and agricultural systems, social organization, spatial interaction, and globalization.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
 

  1. Describe and explain cultural diversity in the United States and around the world.
  2. Articulate the spatial aspects of human migration, cultural interaction and diffusion around the world.
  3. Highlight the impact of economic development and globalization on world cultures.
  4. Interpret sense of place of people from different cultures through their mental maps.


GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes
 

  1. Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
  2. Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
  3. Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.



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