INTRODUCTION to PART TWO of GEOGRAPHY of UTAH

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY –

UTAH and Issues of Social and Behavioral Sciences

GEOGRAPHY is LINK

Review where we are in our explorations of Geography of Utah LINK to course flier LINK to summary of the course

Evidence:

Images of places in Utah LINK to Wasatch Front - Hamblin2004p.203-CityCreek; LINK to Spanish Valley (Moab) Hamblin2004p.35; LINK to St George Hamblin2004p129Virgin Anticline ; LINK to Bear River flood plain Hamblin2004-p291-BearRiverDelta

Human geography in the news ... indeed just look a newspaper headlines... so so many can be explored as issues of social and behavioral sciences... and as human "geography" when we explore them spatially... what is special about geography? It's spatial

Observations Note... how some images show bedrock... no people... how some urban areas have land use patterns that seem well defined and others not. Just look around as you are waiting outside... or even inside... and see evidence of ... Utah's demographics; economics; politics; sociology; and culture / anthropology.

BIG CONCEPTS LINK to the annotated GEOG 15 Themes

Will be for each of the five issues—chapters –

Anthropology, Demographics, Economics, Political Science, Sociology

SO WHAT… connect to the 15 Themes of Geography of Utah

Social and behavioral issues are important because... they affect some of these... and conversely, note the importance of these themes for influencing the social and behavioral issues... feedback loops... "it's a loopy world", to quote Fred Montague.

The five great themes of Geography

Location

Place

Interaction

Movement

Regions

But FIRST even before you read the text... examine the Utah around you … Go outside and observe the geography that surrounds you.

Reality Check! … challenge…

Go outside – preferably with a few friends of family members.

Toss out observations of what you see for 5 minutes… longer if you are stuck.

Write down 15 diverse observattions.

Now… draw lines between the 15 diverse observations.

Label the observations as H (about human geography) and P (about physical geography)

Think about the lines that connect… and discuss those lines… because that’s what we’ll be studying… and in Part II of the course, we’ll focus on Human Geography… and those lines.